Stunning Sankrant Vel Flame Vine - Add a Pop of Color to Your Garden Today
- Common name:
- Flaming Trumpet, Golden Shower, Flame Vine, Orange Bignonia, Orange Shower
- Regional name:
- Marathi - Sankrant Vel, Tamil - Tanga Pu
- Category:
- Climbers, Creepers & Vines
- Family:
- Bignoniaceae or Jacaranda family
- Light:
- Sun growing, Semi shade
- Water:
- Normal
- Primarily grown for:
- Flowers
- Flowering season:
- February, March, April
- Flower or Inflorescence color:
- Orange
- Foliage color:
- Green
- Plant Height or length:
- 8 to 12 meters
- Plant Form:
- Climbing or growing on support
- Special Character:
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- Auspicious or Feng Shui plant
- Can grow on trellis or chain link fencing
- Must have for Farm house or big gardens
- Generally available in India in quantities of:
- Over hundreds
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Plant Description:
- - This is what makes us grow plants. Their sheer beauty. A Pyrostegia in full bloom is more pretty than any man made item. And its beauty lies in its short fleeting presence.
- This beautiful climber comes to us from Brazil and Paraguay.
- Leaves are compound with 2-8 leafiets and one terminal one.
- Leaflets ovate to ovate oblong 4-7 cm long.
- Corolla tubular about 5 cm long.
- Orange slender tubed flowers, 8 cm long.
- Flowers are borne in large drooping clusters.
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Growing tips:
- - Grows best in full sunlight.
- Will climb and cover a fence, trellis, walls and arches.
- Dry and thin shoots should be removed after flowering.
- Plants will not bloom well in warm and humid coastal areas.
- They require cool winters for best bloom.
- Can be grown as a pot plant as well.