Canary flora > Exotic and ornamental
Pyrostegia venusta
Pyrostegia venusta (Ker Gawl.) Miers
Flame Vine, Firecracker Vine, Orange trumpet
Vigorous, fast-growing climbing shrub with persistent foliage, with
fine, long, intricate, fragile, angular stems, which can reach several
metres in length and, in optimal conditions, up to 20 m in height.
It has persistent leaves, formed by two pointed ovate leaflets, about 4-10 cm long by 2-5 cm wide, shortly petiolate, glabrous or pubescent, laxly scaly, with briefly mucronate apex, entire edge, lustrous upper side, not very visible venation on the underside, and with a trifid tendril in the middle of them.
It has persistent leaves, formed by two pointed ovate leaflets, about 4-10 cm long by 2-5 cm wide, shortly petiolate, glabrous or pubescent, laxly scaly, with briefly mucronate apex, entire edge, lustrous upper side, not very visible venation on the underside, and with a trifid tendril in the middle of them.
Its showy orange flowers are gathered in dense and showy terminal
inflorescences of up to 15-20 flowers each.
They have a persistent orange-coloured calyx, turbinate, denticulate, somewhat hairy, ending in 5 pointed lobes bent backwards, and a long tubular corolla, somewhat curved, about 5-10 cm long, glabrous, initially closed and then open, with narrow, revolute, yellowish-edged, densely hairy lobes.
The orange-coloured stamens have long filaments, protruding from the corolla, and are surmounted by straight thecae about 4 mm long.
They have a persistent orange-coloured calyx, turbinate, denticulate, somewhat hairy, ending in 5 pointed lobes bent backwards, and a long tubular corolla, somewhat curved, about 5-10 cm long, glabrous, initially closed and then open, with narrow, revolute, yellowish-edged, densely hairy lobes.
The orange-coloured stamens have long filaments, protruding from the corolla, and are surmounted by straight thecae about 4 mm long.
The fruits are linear, compressed, leathery, yellowish-brown to
brownish, smooth, pointed capsules with elliptical, slender, dark,
elliptical seeds with membranaceous lateral wings and a hyaline rim.
Its very abundant flowering, which sometimes covers almost the entire plant, normally takes place from early autumn to late winter.
It can be reproduced by seed, although it is much easier to reproduce by cuttings or layering.
Its very abundant flowering, which sometimes covers almost the entire plant, normally takes place from early autumn to late winter.
It can be reproduced by seed, although it is much easier to reproduce by cuttings or layering.
