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
Asarina lophospermum (L.H.Bail.) Pennell | BM t.3037/1830 | BHL
| Family | Scrophulariaceae |
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| Category | |
| Region of origin | Mexico |
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| Common Name | Creeping gloxinia, Climbing gloxinia |
| Name in the Camden Park Record | Lophospermum scandens |
| Confidence level | high |