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Cultivated for its ornamental flowers, the young branches are used for making course ropes.
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Cultivated as an ornamental. The young branches are used for making coarse ropes. The roots and leaves are used in the treat-ment of fractures, injury, and backache and leg pain caused by rheumatism.
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Description
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A large evergreen climber. Stem woody with rusty pubescent shoot, milky juice flows from cut stems; leaves opposite, exstipulate, membranous-coriaceous, ovate to ovate-oblong, abruptly acuminate usually smooth and glabrous, rarely sparesely hairy below, 15-30 x 7-18 cm, petiole 1.25-2.5 cm long, hairy. Calyx segments oblanceolate, tomentose, c. 3.5 cm long, often glandular within, dark red or reddish brown in colour. Corolla 7.5 - 12.5 cm long, campanulate, white or creamish, glabrous or pubescent, lobes 5, c. 2.5 cm long rounded, acute with a short tube. Stamens 5, inserted on the corolla tube, alternating with the lobes; anthers sagittate, connivent to the stigma forming five sided cone, disc 5-lobed. Style filiform, stigma fusiform. Follicles oblong, thick, woody, turgid green. Seeds many ovoid or oblong, compressed, contracted at the top.
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Description
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Lianas to 20 m. Bark corky; young branches rusty pubescent; branchlets dark brown, pubescent to glabrous. Petiole to 3 cm; leaf blade narrowly obovate or narrowly to broadly elliptic, 6-30 X 3.5-15 cm, sparsely to densely pubescent when young, glabrous when older; lateral veins 8-20 pairs. Cymes 12-25 cm, 3-19-flowered, sparsely to densely pubescent; peduncle 2.5-9 cm; bracts leafy, pale green. Pedicel 2.5-4.5 cm. Sepals pale green, 3-6 mm. Corolla white, creamy, or pale yellow, base pale green; tube funnelform, 6.5-13 cm, glabrous inside; limb ca. 10 cm in diam., attenuate at base, sparsely to densely pubescent outside, glabrous inside; lobes suborbicular to broadly ovate, 1.7-4 cm, apex acuminate. Stamens white; filaments 3.2-6 cm; anthers 1.5-1.7 cm, included; disc ringlike, apex sparsely puberulent. Ovary tomentose. Style 7-9 cm. Follicles usually narrowly ellipsoid, 22-31 X 5-6 cm. Seeds 1.5-2.5 cm, coma 4-7 cm. Fl. spring-summer. 2n = 24.
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Distribution
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E. Himalaya (Nepal, Sikkim).
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Distribution
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Distribution: Native to the Eastern Himalayas, cultivated in gardens of Pakistan.
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Distribution
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SW Guangxi, S Yunnan; cultivated in Fujian, Guangdong [Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Laos, Myanmar, Nepal, Thailand, Vietnam]
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Elevation Range
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150-1400 m
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Flower/Fruit
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Fl. Per.: March - April.
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Habitat
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Humid montane forests, valleys, riverbanks; 300-1500 m.
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Synonym
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Echites grandiflora Roxburgh.
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Derivation of specific name
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grandiflora: with large flowers
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- Hyde, M.A., Wursten, B.T. and Ballings, P. (2002-2014). Beaumontia grandiflora Wall. Flora of Zimbabwe website. Accessed 28 August 2014 at http://www.zimbabweflora.co.zw/cult/species.php?species_id=162620
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Description
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Climber. Leaves elliptic to obovate with a short petiole. Corolla 10-15 cm, white; lobes relatively short. Calyx 2.5-4 cm
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- Hyde, M.A., Wursten, B.T. and Ballings, P. (2002-2014). Beaumontia grandiflora Wall. Flora of Zimbabwe website. Accessed 28 August 2014 at http://www.zimbabweflora.co.zw/cult/species.php?species_id=162620
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Worldwide distribution
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Himalayas
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Beaumontia grandiflora
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Beaumontia grandiflora, the Easter lily vine, herald's trumpet, or Nepal trumpet flower, is a species of flowering plant in the family Apocynaceae.[2] It is native to the eastern Indian Subcontinent, southern China, and mainland Southeast Asia, and has been introduced to a number of locales in Central America.[1] With its vining habit and trumpet-shaped flowers it is widely cultivated as an ornamental.[2]
Flowers are usually pendant
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Beaumontia grandiflora: Brief Summary
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Beaumontia grandiflora, the Easter lily vine, herald's trumpet, or Nepal trumpet flower, is a species of flowering plant in the family Apocynaceae. It is native to the eastern Indian Subcontinent, southern China, and mainland Southeast Asia, and has been introduced to a number of locales in Central America. With its vining habit and trumpet-shaped flowers it is widely cultivated as an ornamental.
In bloom in Australia
Leaves
Flowers are usually pendant
Flower buds
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