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Lophospermum erubescens D.Don

Tender evergreen climber with toothed, triangular leaves and rose-coloured flowers.  [RHSD, Hortus].  See also Lophospermum scandens D.Don.

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.’  Raised by P. Neill of Cannonmills, Edinburgh, in 1830.  [BM t.3037, 3038/1830 as Lophospermum scandens].  ‘It [Lophospermum erubescens] was at first supposed to be the same as the Lophospermum scandens; but Mr. Don, having lately compared the garden plant with the original in Mr. Lambert’s Herbarium, has ascertained it to be a new species.’ [BR f.1381/1830].

History at Camden Park

Seed order to Hurst and McMullen, Seedsmen and Florists of London, on 8th April 1846.  [MP A2933-1, p.132].  I have found no other record.

Notes

As John Lindley intimated in the Botanical Register description, considered by some to be synonymous with Lophospermum scandens D.Don, which see.

Published Sep 24, 2009 - 01:49 PM | Last updated Jul 31, 2010 - 03:36 PM

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Figured is a climber with toothed, triangular leaves and rose-coloured flowers. Botanical Register f.1381, 1830.

Lophospermum erubescens D.Don | BR f.1381/1830 | BHL

Family Scrophulariaceae
Category
Region of origin

Mexico
Synonyms
  • Maurandya erubescens (D.Don) A.Gray
  • Lophospermum scandens Sweet
  • Maurandya scandens Don
  • Asarina erubescens (D.Don) Pennel 
Common Name
Name in the Camden Park Record

Lophospermum erubescens 
Confidence level high