Vinca difformis

Medium Periwinkle ( Vinca difformis )

The Middle periwinkle (Vinca difformis ) is a species of the genus Periwinkle ( Vinca ) in the family of the dogbane family ( Apocynaceae ).

Features

The Middle periwinkle is an evergreen shrub, with creeping, up to 2 meters long and wurzelndem at the nodes shoot. On sprout form sterile, prostrate side branches and upright flower sprouts reach the stature heights of 50 centimeters. The leaves are opposite, short-stalked, ovate, glabrous at the edges and have a length of 2.5 to 7 centimeters. The flowers are stalked and arranged individually in the upper leaf axils. The calyx is permanent, the sepals are subulate, 5-14 mm long and bare. The crown is pale violet and 3 to 4.5 inches wide. The corolla tube is up to 18 millimeters long, funnel shaped and has five corolla lobes that spread out flat, cut off the front wrong and are up to 16 millimeters long.

The flowering period extends from February to May

Occurrence

The Middle Evergreen comes in the western Mediterranean region east to Italy before. It grows in shady, moist places and in hedgerows.

Documents

• Ehrentraud Bayer, Karl Peter Buttler, Xaver Finkenzeller, Jürke Grey: Plants of the Mediterranean ( The colored nature guide ). Mosaik Verlag GmbH, Munich 1986.