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Podranea ricasoliana Sprague in Dyer, Fl.
Synonym
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Pandorea ricasoliana
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Family
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Bignoniaceae
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Local name
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English
-Port St. John's Creeper
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Flowering and fruiting period
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November-June
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Distribution
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Central America and South Africa
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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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Used as a ornamenatal plant .
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Key
Botanical Characters:
Woody straggler.
Leaves pinnate,glossy green divided in to 7-11 ovate leaflets long,teehthed
margins .Calyx inflated, , loosely enclosing the corolla, greenish, 5-lobed.
Corolla pinkish, funnel-shaped, red-veined;, narrow; limb of 5
spreading rounded lobes.Stamens 4, didynamous; filament pairs; anthers
divergent.Ovary 2-celled; ovules numerous, on axile placentae;stigmatic lobes 2, flattened.  |
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