Pyrostegia venusta (flamevine, "Kaenkazura")

Japanese name: カエンカズラ （火炎葛）
Scientific name: Pyrostegia venusta

[Overview]
An evergreen woody climber.
It grows quickly.
The leaves are alternate and trifoliate, but the terminal leaflet often turns into a branching tendril.
The leaflets are ovate to ovate-lanceolate, pointed at the tip, with entire margins.
Cymes or racemes bear so many flowers that they cover the plant.
The flowers are orange and slender tubular; the corolla tip is 5-lobed and curves back.
The fruit is a capsule.

[Cultivation]
Propagate by cuttings.
It prefers sunny, well-drained, fertile soil.
It is suited to planting in hot regions such as Okinawa.
Scale insects can occur.

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