Lophospermum scandens D.Don

Frost tender evergreen perennial climber, deciduous in cool climates, with slightly hairy leaves and trumpet-shaped flowers with rose-purple corolla and white tube, in summer and autumn.  To 3m or more.  [RHSD, Hortus].

Horticultural & Botanical History

‘This truly magnificent creeper, whose climbing stems copiously adorned with leaves and with large, campanulate blossoms, render it a very desirable object of cultivation, was raised P. Neill, Esq., in his garden at Canonmills, near Edinburgh, from Mexican seed, in the spring of last year (1830).  It flowered in his stove in the begining, and in the greenhouse of the Botanic Garden, Edinburgh, in the middle of September.  It also possesses the advantage of thriving in the open border, where its flower-buds are now making their appearance.  Mr. Sweet remarks, that when this plant flowers in the open air, the colour of its blossoms becomes a deep purple, instead of the pink which it assumes, when cultivated under glass.’  [BM t.3037-3038/1830].  Flore des Serres figures the variety coccineum with pink flowers.  [FS f.1469/1859].

History at Camden Park

Listed in the 1845, 1850 and 1857 catalogues [H.132/1845].

Notes

Lophospermum scandens Sweet (1825) = Maurandya erubescens ( D.Don ) A.Gray, a closely related Mexican species.

Published Sep 24, 2009 - 12:22 PM | Last updated Jul 31, 2010 - 03:37 PM


Figured are leaves and trumpet-shaped flowers with rose-pink corolla and paler tube.  Curtis's Botanical Magazine t.3037, 1830.

Asarina lophospermum (L.H.Bail.) Pennell | BM t.3037/1830 | BHL

More details about Lophospermum scandens D.Don
Family Scrophulariaceae
Category
Region of origin

Mexico

Synonyms
  • Asarina lophospermum (L.H.Bail.) Pennell
  • Lophospermum scandens D.Don
  • Maurandya scandens A.Gray
  • Maurandya lophospermum L.H.Bailey
  • Maurandya erubescens var. glabrata I.M.Johnst.
Common Name

Creeping gloxinia, Climbing gloxinia

Name in the Camden Park Record

Lophospermum scandens 

Confidence level high