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Beaumontia grandiflora - beautiful trumpet flowers. They are large and have strong sweet aroma. Flowers have amazing perfect shape and symmetry. They are stunning! Resemble Cup of Gold
Solandra maxima , but they are not relatives.It is woody very large rambling vine; that is how I found it growing behind the fence (shot below).Location: Brisbane suburban, AustraliaNative to India and Nepal
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Madre de Dios, Peru
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Tucson, Arizona, United States
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Tucson, Arizona, United States
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Native from Costa Rica to Bolivia, known as Quino. More widely planted as a quinine source. Photo from Colombia.
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La Virgen, Heredia, Costa Rica
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One of the species known as Cafecillo. It ranges from southern Mexico to Peru.
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Lonavala, Maharashtra, India
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Also one of the species known as Carrion Plants due to its smell, which it uses to attract flies. Native to South Africa. Desert Botanical Garden, Phoenix.
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Family: RubiaceaeSyn. Hedyotis puberula(G.Don)Arn.Annual herbs, 10-20 cm tall, Leaves lanceolate, base decurrent, subsessile, stipules hairy, flowers 3-4mm long, white, 3-12 in umbellate cumes, on 1-2mm, long,thick peduncles,petals4, minutely hairy,stamens 4, capsules 2-3mm across globose, Distribution: common weed, native of Indian subcontinent, Photographed at Nellore.The plant is used as expectorant in bronchial problems. Local name: Chiruveru (Telugu), Ref: Flora of Presidency of Madras by J.S.Gamble.
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Family: ApocyanaceaeDistribution: Common in hill slopes. Limited to Peninsular India and Bengal.Photographed at Eastren ghats in Andhra Pradesh.Pretty climbing shrubs. branchlets pubescent.Leaves elliptic ovate, obtusely acute, base attenuate, subcoriaceous, Flowers white fragrant 1-2cm across, in terminal corymbose cymes.Flowers densly corymbose, pale yellow or white, cymes densly corymbose, Whole plant is used as anthelmintic,emetic and used in the treatment of bronchitis. Flowers are useful in ophthalmia.Reference: Flora of Presidency of of Madras by J.S. Gamble.As per this edition it is Aganosma cymosa G.Don
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Toro Amarillo, Alajuela, Costa Rica
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