Combretum fruticosum

Combretum fruticosum, known as orange flame vine or chameleon vine, is a species of bushwillow that occurs from Mexico to northern Argentina.[1]

View of the plant

Orange flame vine
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Rosids
Order: Myrtales
Family: Combretaceae
Genus: Combretum
Species:
C. fruticosum
Binomial name
Combretum fruticosum
(Loefl.) Stuntz
Synonyms

Combretum farinosum Kunth[1]

Description

The orange flame vine is a liana that reaches up to 3 metres (9.8 ft) in height without a support and up to 11 metres (36 ft) with a support. The branches are cylindrical and striated.

The leaves are persistent to semipersistent, dense and dry. They are simple, opposite, sometimes alternate, 6 to 16 cm long and 3 to 8 cm broad, with an entire margin and a short petiole.

The flowers appear in summer and are yellowish to reddish, small, grouped in axillar spikes 8 to 16 cm long. The calyx is bell-shaped with 4 lobules 5 mm long, the corolla has 4 very small petals 1 to 1.5 mm long. The 8 stamens are 3 cm long and have reddish anthers. The number of flowers varies from 52 to 93 in each inflorescence.[1]

The fruit forms in autumn and is dry and indehiscent, 2 cm long, and reddish brown.

gollark: "Good in theory" is a weird thing to say about communism when it's more like "good according to marketing for it, like every ideology", not "good if you actually think about it and know how humans work".
gollark: Yes, I agree.
gollark: Yes, exactly.
gollark: Good in theory if you know basically nothing about humans, perhaps.
gollark: I don't think it's very good in theory if it's got a giant problem you could easily see coming.

References
  1. Bernardello, Luis; Galetto, Leonardo; Rodriguez, Ivana G. (1994). "Reproductive biology, variability of nectar features and pollination of Combretum fruticosum (Combretaceae) in Argentina". Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society. 114 (3): 293–308. doi:10.1111/j.1095-8339.1994.tb01938.x. ISSN 0024-4074.
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.