Thunbergia erecta
Habit | shrub
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Height: | ⇕ | 6 ft"ft" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 6. to 8 ft"ft" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 8. |
Width: | ⇔ | 7 ft"ft" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 7. |
Lifespan: | ⌛ | perennial |
Bloom: | ❀ | early summer, mid summer, late summer |
Exposure: | ☼ | sun |
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Features: | ✓ | flowers |
USDA Zones: | 10 to 12 | |
Flower features: | ❀ | blue, purple |
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Thunbergia erecta is a herbaceous perennial climbing plant species in the genus Thunbergia native to western Africa.
Read about Thunbergia erecta in the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture
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Thunbergia erecta, T. Anders. (Meyenia erecta, Benth.). Shrub, 2-4 ft. high, with loose spreading branches, half-erect: lvs. opposite, petiolate, ovate or subrhomboid, smooth, entire or sinuate-toothed: fls. solitary on axillary peduncles; calyx cut into 12-14 short teeth, concealed by the large bracts; corolla funnelform; tube curved, deep yellow within; limb purple, l 1/2 - 2 in. across, of 5 subrotund obcordate lobes. Trop. W. Afr. —A greenhouse shrub, producing fls. freely at almost any season. Grows in the open in Fla. Not a climber. Var. alba, Hort. Fls. white. Var. caerulea, Hort. Fls. large, intense violet, with orange throat. CH
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References
- Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture, by L. H. Bailey, MacMillan Co., 1963
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