Trumpet wines

Trumpet wines
	Pink Trumpet Wine ( Podranea ricasoliana )
Systematics
	Asterids
	Euasterids I
Order :	Mint family (Lamiales)
Family :	Trumpet Family (Bignoniaceae)
Tribe :	Tecomeae
Genre :	Trumpet wines
Scientific name
	Podranea
	Sprague

The trumpet wines ( Podranea ) are a genus of plants in the trumpet tree family (Bignoniaceae).

Foliage leaves and flower buds of pink trumpet wine ( Podranea ricasoliana )

description

Vegetative characteristics

The trumpet wine species grow as evergreen , climbing shrubs and reach heights of up to about 5 meters.

The opposite arranged leaves are divided into a petiole and a leaf blade. The imparipinnate leaf blade is composed of 5 to 13 egg-shaped, pointed pinnate leaves .

Generative characteristics

The flowers stand together in terminal, panicle inflorescences . The hermaphrodite flowers are zygomorphic and five-fold with a double flower envelope . The five petals are fused bell-shaped. The corolla is pink and veined darker in the throat. The corolla, which is up to 7.5 × 7.5 centimeters in size, is weakly two-lipped and ends with five lobes. They have two long and two short stamens .

The up to 40 centimeters long, cylindrical capsule fruits open with two lobes when ripe and release their numerous winged seeds .

Herbarium of Pink Trumpet Wine ( Podranea ricasoliana )

Systematics and distribution

The genus Podranea was established in 1904 by Thomas Archibald Sprague in William Henry Harvey and OW Sonder: Flora Capensis, ... , Volume 4, Section 2, pages 449-450. The genus name Podranea is an anagram for Pandorea , a closely related Australian plant genus, from which the species Podranea ricasoliana was placed in its own genus.

The genus Podranea distributed from the southern tropical to southern Africa. The pink trumpet wine ( Podranea ricasoliana ) has become a neophyte as a horticulturist from Central America to tropical South America, in parts of Australia and New Zealand .

There are only two species in the genus Podranea :

Podranea brycei (NEBr.) Sprague (Syn .: Pandorea brycei (NEBr.) Rehder ): It occurs from Malawi via Zimbabwe to Mozambique .

Pink trumpet wine ( Podranea ricasoliana (Tanfani) Sprague , Pandorea ricasoliana (Tanfani) K.Schum. ): It occurs from Malawi, Mozambique to Zambia and in the South African provinces of Eastern Cape and KwaZulu-Natal .

The two types are quite similar. Outwardly, they only differ in the size of the luab leaves and the hairiness of the flowers. Some botanists consider them not to be independent and combine both into a single species.

use

The pink trumpet wine ( Podranea ricasoliana ) is used as an ornamental plant in tropical parks and gardens and in rooms worldwide.

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f Rafaël Govaerts (Ed.): Podranea. In: World Checklist of Selected Plant Families (WCSP) - The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew . Retrieved December 23, 2018.
^ Podranea in the Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN), USDA , ARS , National Genetic Resources Program. National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland. Retrieved December 23, 2018.

Web links

Commons : Trumpet Wines ( Podranea ) - Collection of images, videos and audio files

PlantzAfrica - Information from the South African National Biodiversity Institute . (engl.)

[WCSP-1] ↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f Rafaël Govaerts (Ed.): Podranea. In: World Checklist of Selected Plant Families (WCSP) - The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew . Retrieved December 23, 2018.

[GRIN-2] Podranea in the Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN), USDA , ARS , National Genetic Resources Program. National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland. Retrieved December 23, 2018.