Campsis × tagliabuana
Large Trumpet Flower ( Campsis x tagliabuana )
The Great trumpet vine or hybrid trumpet vine ( Campsis × tagliabuana, Syn. Tecoma tagliabuana Vis) is the hybrid of the two trumpet flower species trumpet vine ( Campsis radicans ) and Chinese trumpet vine ( Campsis grandiflora ).
Description
The Great trumpet vine is a deciduous, shrubby vine. With the help of their detention roots reaching heights of 4-10 meters.
The leaves are beginning to constant light green, medium green later vigorously. You are imparipinnate with 7 to 11 at the edge serrated, long pointed leaves.
From June to September, the trumpet-shaped, slightly zygomorphic flowers appear in clusters at the ends of year shoots. The predominantly orange to brick-red, hermaphroditic flowers consist of five bell-shaped intergrown, somewhat fleshy sepals and five petals fused funnel-shaped. They have two long and two short, curved stamens. The Upper constant ovary is surrounded by a plentiful nectar -producing discus.
Pollination is depending on location by hummingbirds, bees and bumblebees. Are formed capsule fruits that contain numerous winged seeds.
Location and use
The Great trumpet vine prefers very warm, sunny to semi- sunny locations with evenly moist subsoil moisture conditions. It thrives on sandy and loamy subsoil with a pH of 6.1 to 7.8.
These hybrids can withstand temperatures below freezing to about -17 ° C. Thus, it is frost sensitive than the trumpet vine and therefore needs may winter protection.
As an ornamental plant, it is used mainly for its decorative flowers for Greening in West and south walls and on walls.
Botanical history
Campsis × tagliabuana is a culture resulting in hybrids that probably first noticed in 1850 in the gardens of the Prince of Litta Lainate. The describer Roberto de Visiani honored with the epithet the gardener Alberto and Carlo Tagliabue Tagliabue Linneo, " two to the garden culture highly deserved brothers " of which he had received the plant.
Variety selection
- ' Coccinea '
- ' Takarazuka Gold'
- 'Indian Summer'
- ' Madame Galen '