Gonolobus suberosus (Linnaeus) R. Brown.
Non-standard. Added for North Carolina Botanical Garden planted species. Habitat: Non-standard. Added for North Carolina Botanical Garden planted species.
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Horticultural Information
Intro: Herbaceous perennial vine of moist to wet forests and thickets on floodplains and stream banks, as well as occasionally in moist upland forests.
Stems: Stems twining over other plants, branched, hairy; may be reddish.
Leaves: Leaves opposite, petiolate, spade-shaped with notched base, 2 1/2-6 in. long, dark green and crinkly, minutely hairy on both surfaces.
Inforescence:
Flowers: Flowers in small axillary clusters of 3-9, the buds notably cone-shaped; green to yellowish with a purple center; consisting of 5 stiff-spreading, waxy, lance-shaped corolla lobes and a complex, fleshy "crown" structure in the center.
Fruits: Fruit a stiff, oval pod with sharp-angled edges.
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Height: Climbs to 15 ft.
plant sale text: Eastern Anglepod is an uncommon vine found throughout North Carolina. Its waxy petals have purple centers and greenish tips. This plant is in the same family as the milkweeds and has an interesting pod reminiscent of a milkweed pod but smooth and angled. In the wild, this species is most often found growing in mesic to wet forests particularly at sunnier edges.
bloom table text:
description: Herbaceous perennial vine of moist to wet forests and thickets on floodplains and stream banks, as well as occasionally in moist upland forests.
stems: Stems twining over other plants, branched, hairy; may be reddish.
leaves: Leaves opposite, petiolate, spade-shaped with notched base, 2 1/2-6 in. long, dark green and crinkly, minutely hairy on both surfaces.
inflorescence:
flowers: Flowers in small axillary clusters of 3-9, the buds notably cone-shaped; green to yellowish with a purple center; consisting of 5 stiff-spreading, waxy, lance-shaped corolla lobes and a complex, fleshy "crown" structure in the center.
fruits: Fruit a stiff, oval pod with sharp-angled edges.
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