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Products > Distictis laxiflora (SMG select form)
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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 |
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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 on this page is based on the research that we have conducted about this plant in the San Marcos Growers library, from what we have found on reliable online sources, as well as from observations made of our crops of this plant growing in the nursery and of plants growing in the nursery's garden and those in other gardens where we may have observed it. We also have incorporated comments received from others and welcome getting feedback from those who may have additional information, particularly if this information includes cultural information that would aid others in growing Distictis laxiflora (SMG select form). |
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