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Plant Detail
Botanical Name
Antigonum leptopus - Hook. & Arn.
Family
Polygonaceae
Common Name
The coral creeper
Habit
Climber
Synonym
Corculum leptopus Stuntz.
Habitat
Planted
Color Of Flower
Red, Pink or White
Key Characters
Plants climbing by tendrils
Systematic Position
Division :
Dicotyledonae
 
Class :
Monochlamydae
 
Series :
Curvembryae
 
Order :
Dicotyledonae
Plant Description

Perennial, beautiful, climbing shrub with branchlets and rachis passing into tendrils; leaves alternate, stipulate, ovate to deltoid, acute to acuminate at apex, amplexicaul at base, margin entire, undulate, glabrous; flowers in fascicles arranged in axillary racemes; tepals 5, showy, red, pink or white, ovate to cordate or subcordate; stamens 8, connate at the base into a ring with short teeth in between; styles 3; achenes 3-angled, enclosed in the enlarged papery perianth.

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