Japanese name: アイノコノウゼンカズラ Scientific name:Campsis ×tagliabuana
[Overview]
A deciduous woody climber.
It is a hybrid of Chinese trumpet creeper (Campsis grandiflora) and American trumpet creeper (Campsis radicans), and its characteristics are intermediate between the two.
It produces many aerial roots, attaches to walls and trees, and climbs.
The leaves are opposite and odd-pinnately compound, hairy on the underside, with coarse serrations.
Short, slightly drooping panicles are produced at the tips of new branches.
The flowers are reddish orange and funnel-shaped with a long tube; the tip is 5-lobed, and the lobes are rounded.
The calyx is pale orange and deeply 5-lobed, with long, pointed lobes.
[Cultivation]
Propagate by cuttings.
It prefers sunny, well-drained soil.
It is hardy and easy to grow.
For potted plants, water thoroughly when the soil surface dries; for established plants in the ground, rainfall is sufficient.
Apply slow-release fertilizer around the plant as fertilizer in winter.
There are no particular pests or diseases.
