The corolla lobes are longer, corolla tube nearly funnel shaped (teeth shorter and corolla not funnel-shaped in upper part in C. radicans)..........Campsis x tagliabuana.
https://indiantreepix.googlegroups.com/attach/51cfa2212395b7fc/Campsis-radicans-Balgarden-Kashmir-e.jpg?view=1&part=5 -- Dr. Gurcharan Singh Retired Associate Professor SGTB Khalsa College, University of Delhi, Delhi-110007 Res: 932 Anand Kunj, Vikas Puri, New Delhi-110018. Phone: 011-25518297 Mob: 9810359089 http://www.gurcharanfamily.com/ http://people.du.ac.in/~singhg45/ On Fri, Jan 11, 2013 at 8:37 AM, Ushadi Micromini <[email protected] > wrote: > *11 Bignoniaceae Week : : UD 011: : Campsis Flowering vine for ID > please* > > *Dear All: I found these flowers on a vine at a local meditation Ashram > in Kolkata. It was middle of a very hot summer.* > > * * > > *These are the only two pictures I have…. I was so sure of the diagnosis > that this was Campsis radicans… now I am a bit wavering with all the > flowers that look sooo similar…* > > > *It matches the description Gurcharan ji gave in in these words... I > quote and give the link...* > > * * > > *"Campsis** radicans*: leaflets 9-11, pubescent beneath especially along > midreib and main veins, dark green above; calyx shortly 5-lobed, lobes less > than 1/3 the tube; flowers orange with scarlet limb, 2-3 times as long as > calyx, usually less than 4 cm across; capsule cylindric-oblong, 7-12 cm > long, keeled along sutures, beaked at apex.' " end quote > > *https://mail.google.com/mail/#search/campsis+radicans/13c11a05a704ce09* > > * > * > > * > * > > * * > > -- > Usha di > =========== > --
