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Plant Detail
Botanical Name
Aristolochia littoralis - Parodi
Family
Aristolochiaceae
Common Name
Calico Flower, Pipe vine
Habit
Climber
Synonym
Aristolochia elegans Mast.
Habitat
Planted
Color Of Flower
Dark purple
Key Characters
Flower showy, large more than 5cm across.
Systematic Position
Division :
Dicotyledonae
 
Class :
Monochlamydae
 
Series :
Multiovullatae Terrestris
 
Order :
Dicotyledonae
Plant Description

Perennial, glabrous, twinning or climbing shrub; leaves ovate, cordate, obtuse, long-petiolate, broadly triangular to heart shaped, base cuneate; flowers botched with dark purple or violet brown, white outside, solitary; perianth tube elongated; mouth oblique, trumped shaped, gradually passing into short glabrous, obtuse lip; stamens 6 rarely 5 or more, style very short, 3-6 lobed, yellowish green, limb nearly circular; capsule 6-ribbed, splitting along the ribs to release seeds; seeds numerous, flat, brown, winged, triangular,.

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