Rick
Well-Known Member
Check out this Aristolochia species.
This flower is bigger than my outstretched hand
I have to look this species up. The genus has even larger/more spectacular species than this one (like grandiflorum).
This is another pipevine species like the dutchman pipes native to the US. I'm not sure if the genus is pan tropic or only Asian and New World. The foliage is often an important food source for butterfly larvae (but there seem to be species specific toxins in the plants that restrict the butterfly's capable of eating them.
I believe they are all fly pollinated and often smell pretty bad, but this one is maybe a little rank but with a citrus/spicy overlay. Not unpleasant.
I picked this up at our Society May picnic/auction. They had hacked it out of their GH to get it to the event. I just stuck it outside, and its been getting nothing but rain. It's growing aggressively into our dog yard fence, so I'll probably need to abuse it severely to get it back to a manageable size to overwinter it in my GH this fall.
This flower is bigger than my outstretched hand
I have to look this species up. The genus has even larger/more spectacular species than this one (like grandiflorum).
This is another pipevine species like the dutchman pipes native to the US. I'm not sure if the genus is pan tropic or only Asian and New World. The foliage is often an important food source for butterfly larvae (but there seem to be species specific toxins in the plants that restrict the butterfly's capable of eating them.
I believe they are all fly pollinated and often smell pretty bad, but this one is maybe a little rank but with a citrus/spicy overlay. Not unpleasant.
I picked this up at our Society May picnic/auction. They had hacked it out of their GH to get it to the event. I just stuck it outside, and its been getting nothing but rain. It's growing aggressively into our dog yard fence, so I'll probably need to abuse it severely to get it back to a manageable size to overwinter it in my GH this fall.