Podranea

Pink Trumpet Vine ( Podranea ricasoliana )

The trumpet Wines ( Podranea ) are a genus of flowering plants in the family Bignoniaceae ( Bignoniaceae ). Podranea is an anagram for Pandorea, a closely related Australian plant genus from which the type Podranea ricasoliana was separated into its own genus.

Description

The trumpet wines are evergreen plants. They grow as a climbing shrub, reaching heights of growth to about 5 m. The opposite leaves are imparipinnate and composed of 5 to 13 egg-shaped, pointed leaves.

The pink, the throat darker veined flowers are in terminal panicles, are bell-shaped, five-lobed (where weak double lip ), and reach a size of up to 7.5 × 7.5 cm. They have two long and two short stamens.

The fruits are up to 40 cm long, cylindrical capsules that open at maturity zweiklappig and so release their numerous winged seeds.

Dissemination

The genus is native to southern Africa. During the Pink Trumpet Vine ( Podranea ricasoliana ) occurs in the eastern Cape Province in South Africa, the distribution area of ​​the Podranea brycei extends over Zimbabwe, Mozambique and Malawi.

The Pink Trumpet Vine is now cultivated worldwide as an ornamental plant in the appropriate climate zones. He has spread among other things, in parts of Australia and New Zealand as Gartenflüchter.

System

In the genre of trumpet wines two types are distinguished:

• Podranea brycei ( N. E. Br ) Sprague
• Pink Trumpet Vine ( Podranea ricasoliana ( Tanfani ) Sprague )

The two species are quite similar. They vary in appearance only in the size of the leaves and the hair of the flowers. Some botanists consider them to be not independent and can put both together to a single species.