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'''''Thunbergia mysorensis''''', or '''Clock Vine''', is a woody-stemmed, [[evergreen]] climbing [[flowering plant]], native to [[India]]. The name, ''mysorensis'' is derived from the city of [[Mysore]] in the south of India. | |||
Is also sometimes called "Brick & Butter Vine" & "Dolls' Shoes". | |||
The vine often reaches 20 feet (6 metres) and has narrow leaves. The flowers are shaped like pendants and are brownish red with a yellow center, and bloom from Spring to Autumn. | |||
The plant is a popular tropical garden item because of its attractiveness to [[hummingbird]]s. | |||
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Thunbergia mysorensis, T. Anders. (Hexacentris mysorensis, Wight). Climbing shrub, with long, slender branches: lvs. opposite, petiolate, oblong-lanceolate, acuminate, entire or somewhat distantly toothed: racemes long, pendulous: fls. yellow, 2 in. across, the tube purple, inclosed by the spathe-like bracts; limb 4-lobed, the upper lip erect, concave, with reflexed side lobes, lower lip of 3 subequal, spreading lobes. India. —A tall greenhouse climber which flowers, according to treatment, at all seasons. | Thunbergia mysorensis, T. Anders. (Hexacentris mysorensis, Wight). Climbing shrub, with long, slender branches: lvs. opposite, petiolate, oblong-lanceolate, acuminate, entire or somewhat distantly toothed: racemes long, pendulous: fls. yellow, 2 in. across, the tube purple, inclosed by the spathe-like bracts; limb 4-lobed, the upper lip erect, concave, with reflexed side lobes, lower lip of 3 subequal, spreading lobes. India. —A tall greenhouse climber which flowers, according to treatment, at all seasons. | ||
Var. lutea, Hort. (Hexacentris lutea, Hort., Veitch | Var. lutea, Hort. (Hexacentris lutea, Hort., Veitch.), has the fls. pure yellow. | ||
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Thunbergia mysorensis, or Clock Vine, is a woody-stemmed, evergreen climbing flowering plant, native to India. The name, mysorensis is derived from the city of Mysore in the south of India. Is also sometimes called "Brick & Butter Vine" & "Dolls' Shoes".
The vine often reaches 20 feet (6 metres) and has narrow leaves. The flowers are shaped like pendants and are brownish red with a yellow center, and bloom from Spring to Autumn.
The plant is a popular tropical garden item because of its attractiveness to hummingbirds.
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Thunbergia mysorensis, T. Anders. (Hexacentris mysorensis, Wight). Climbing shrub, with long, slender branches: lvs. opposite, petiolate, oblong-lanceolate, acuminate, entire or somewhat distantly toothed: racemes long, pendulous: fls. yellow, 2 in. across, the tube purple, inclosed by the spathe-like bracts; limb 4-lobed, the upper lip erect, concave, with reflexed side lobes, lower lip of 3 subequal, spreading lobes. India. —A tall greenhouse climber which flowers, according to treatment, at all seasons. Var. lutea, Hort. (Hexacentris lutea, Hort., Veitch.), has the fls. pure yellow.
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