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Products > Distictis laxiflora (SMG select form)   Distictis laxiflora (SMG select form) - Vanilla Trumpet Vine Note: This plant is not currently for sale. This is an archive page preserved for informational use.     Habit and Cultural Information Category: Vine Family: Bignoniaceae (Bignonias) Origin: Mexico (North America) Evergreen: Yes Flower Color: Light Lavender Bloomtime: Spring/Summer Fragrant Flowers: Yes Synonyms: [Amphilophium laxiflorum] Height: Climbing (Vine) Width: Spreading Exposure: Full Sun Irrigation (H2O Info): Medium Water Needs Winter Hardiness: 25-30° F Distictis laxiflora (SMG select form) (Vanilla Trumpet Vine) - This is a fast growing evergreen vine reaching 30 feet tall and wide. Showy lavender flowers fade to light lavender throughout the warm months. Plant in full sun to part shade and water occasionally in the summer. It looks a lot like D. 'Rivers', but has a slightly more delicate look about it, and the blooms give off a pleasant vanilla scent. It is hardy to about 25-30 degrees F. If it is well established, it should regenerate from the roots if it freezes down to the ground. This plant was selected by us from seedlings of the large Distictis laxiflora that overhangs our office structure. In 1992 we evaluated 15 seedlings for flower color and fragrance and selected this plant as being the best. We continually try to vegetatively propagate the plant on our office structure but have only had a few cuttings successfully root. Visitors to our nursery can see both forms growing nearby in our main greenhouse where our cutting stock for the select form has taken over the back center of the greenhouse and a plant succesfully rooted from the original covers the south western corner. Come in and compare the flower color and fragrance of these two beautiful plants. This plant native to Mexico has long been known as Distictis laxiflora but the current name, according to The Plant List, the collaborative authoritative listing by Kew Botanic Garden and Missouri Botanic Garden, is Amphilophium laxiflorum. We will continue to list this plant as Distictis laxiflora until such time as this name change has wider acceptance.  The information presented on this page is based on research we have conducted about this plant in our library and from reliable online sources. We also consider observations of it growing in our nursery crops, as well as in the nursery's garden and those in other gardens we visit. We will incorporate comments that we receive from others and welcome getting feedback from anyone who may have additional information, particularly if they include cultural information that would aid others in growing Distictis laxiflora (SMG select form).     [MORE INFO]