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Bignonia magnifica
Synonym
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Saritaea magnifica
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Family
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Bignoniaceae
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Local name
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English- Purple
bignonia
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Flowering and fruiting
period
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November-June
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Distribution
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Native
of South America
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Distribution in Kerala
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All Districts
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Habitat
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Grown
as garden plant
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Endemic/Exotic
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Exotic
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Uses
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Ornamental
plant
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Key
botanical characters:
Climbing
or scandent shrubs, tendrils simple. Leaves opposite, bifoliolate; leaflets
5-11 x 3-6 cm obovate, bluntly short-acuminate, attenuate at base, often one
leaflet is reduced and smaller in size; peiolule to 5 mm long. Flowers in
axillary or terminal corymbs or sometimes solitary. Calyx
cupular-campanulate, truncate, 6-12 x 3-7 mm. Corolla purple to magenta, 8-9
cm long, the mouth white with magenta markings; lobes 5, obovate, subequal.
Stamens included with in the corolla tube.
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