Podranea ricasoliana (Tanfani) Sprague
Family: Bignoniaceae
English: Pink Trumpet Tree
Others: Pink Trumpet Vine, Port St Johns Creeper, Zimbabwe Creeper
Description: Woody vine or vining shrub. Leaves opposite, pinnate, short-stalked, leaflets 7–9, blades about 3 cm long, 2 cm wide, egg-shaped, tips pointed, margins toothed. Flowers pale lavender with dark patch at base of 2 petal lobes, bilaterally symmetrical, tubular 6–8 cm long, tube whitish with deep magenta lines inside, 5-lobed, showy, petal lobes broad, flaring; inflorescence of branched clusters at ends of stems; blooms most of the year. Fruit leathery-dry, hollow, linear, splitting open to release seeds. Habitat: Widely cultivated, rarely escapes into natural areas.
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