This is a spectacular creeper providing a spring spectacle of
flaming crimson, flowering splendour. Flame vin is a robust,
deciduous climber, sometimes a scrambling shrub. Masses of small
flowers with bright red petals and long stamens occur in panicles.
Racemes occur in leaf axils and on branch ends, 5-15 cm long.
Flowers are red, 1.25-1.5 cm across, with 1-2 mm long stalk. Bract linear
lanceolate 2-3 mm long. Sepal tube is 4-5 mm long, 5 angled alternating with
calyx teeth, limb 3-4 mm long, bell-shaped, teeth triangular, 2 x 2 mm.
Petals are 5, elliptic oblong, 5-6 x 2 mm. Stamens 10, protruding out.
The oval leaves are 1.3-6 cm long and 1.3-5 cm wide.
Scarlet Comb is a native of Madagascar and Mauritius, cultivated in the
plains of India for its beautiful flowers.
Identification credit: Tabish
Photographed in Delhi.
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