Spanish Arborvine is a hairless climber with tuberous
roots. Leaves are 6-20 cm long and wider than long, usually palmately
7-parted, 2 basal lobes smallest, laterals larger, central lobe longest
and obovate-tapering; leaf-stalk about as long as blade.
Flower-cluster-stalks are few flowered, as long or longer than
leaf-stalks; sepals are broad, rounded, obovate, in flower 2-3 cm long,
enlarging to 5-7 cm long as the fruit matures. Flowers are about 4-5 cm
long, 5-6 cm wide across the limb, bright-yellow; ovary hairless.
Capsule are 2 cm long, 3 cm wide approximately, pale brown,
thin-walled, enclosed in calyx; seeds 1.5 cm long, ovoid, dull black,
velvet-hairy on angles. Spanish Arborvine is native to Mexico.
Identification credit: Aarti Khale
Photographed in Lalbagh, Bangalore.
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