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Plant Detail
Botanical Name
Campsis radicans - (Linn.) Seem.
Family Bignoniaceae
Common Name Trumpet creeper
Habit Shrub
Synonym Bignonia radicans L.
Habitat Planted
Color Of Flower Scarlet red
Key Characters Climbing shrubs or vines, terminal leaflets foliaceous, flower orange/pink.
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Systematic Position
Division :
Dicotyledonae
Class :
Gamopetalae
Series :
Bicarpellatae
Order :
Personales
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Plant Description
Climbing or scandant shrub; rooting from the lower nodes; leaves opposite, unipinnate, leaflets 9-11, ovate-oblong, acuminate, margin deeply serrate, tendrils absent; flowers large, showy, orange, scarlet to rosy pink in terminal, drooping corymbs; calyx campanulate, shallowly 5-lobed; corolla subequally 5-lobed, tube slightly curved, mouth broad, limbs subequally 2-lipped, large, spreading, decurved; stamens 4, didynamous, included, anther 2-celled, filament hairy at base, disc annular or cushioned; ovary subsessile, 2-celled; ovules many, 2-seriate; style long, glabrous; stigma bilobed; capsules cylindrical, oblong, beaked; seeds winged. |
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