WorldFloraDB - Beaumontia grandiflora

Characteristics

Lianas to 20 m. Bark corky; young branches rusty pubescent; branchlets dark brown, pubescent to glabrous. Petiole to 3 cm; leaf blade narrowly obovate or narrowly to broadly elliptic, 6-30 X 3.5-15 cm, sparsely to densely pubescent when young, glabrous when older; lateral veins 8-20 pairs. Cymes 12-25 cm, 3-19-flowered, sparsely to densely pubescent; peduncle 2.5-9 cm; bracts leafy, pale green. Pedicel 2.5-4.5 cm. Sepals pale green, 3-6 mm. Corolla white, creamy, or pale yellow, base pale green; tube funnelform, 6.5-13 cm, glabrous inside; limb ca. 10 cm in diam., attenuate at base, sparsely to densely pubescent outside, glabrous inside; lobes suborbicular to broadly ovate, 1.7-4 cm, apex acuminate. Stamens white; filaments 3.2-6 cm; anthers 1.5-1.7 cm, included; disc ringlike, apex sparsely puberulent. Ovary tomentose. Style 7-9 cm. Follicles usually narrowly ellipsoid, 22-31 X 5-6 cm. Seeds 1.5-2.5 cm, coma 4-7 cm. Fl. spring-summer. 2n = 24.

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A climbing shrub. It has woody stems 20 m long. The leaves are opposite. They are oval and 15-30 cm long by 7-18 cm wide. The flowers are 7.5-12.5 cm long and bell shaped. The fruit are oblong woody follicles. They contain many seeds.

Young branches and leaves rusty; leaves slightly obovate, acuminate, to 30 cm long.. Flowers white, to 15 cm long.

Stamens included; filaments ≥ 30 mm long

Life form

perennial

Growth form

-

Growth support

climber

Foliage retention

evergreen

Sexuality

hermaphrodite

Pollination

-

Spread

-

Mature width (meter)

-

Mature height (meter)

5.0 - 12.0

Root system

-

Rooting depth (meter)

-

Root diameter (meter)

-

Flower color

Blooming months

Jan	Feb	Mar
Apr	May	Jun
Jul	Aug	Sep
Oct	Nov	Dec

Fruit color

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Fruiting months

-

Nitrogen fixer

-

Photosynthetic pathway

-

Environment

Growing in trees in forests, clambering over rocks and shrubs in more open positions at elevations up to 1,400 metres in the Himalayas.

More

It is a subtropical plant. It grows up to 1,400 m above sea level.

Light
Soil humidity
Soil texture
Soil acidity	-
Soil nutriment	-
Hardiness (USDA)

Usage

Uses	environmental use fiber material medicinal
Edible	flowers
Therapeutic use	Abortifacient agents (leaf), Contraceptive agents (leaf), Luteolytic agents (leaf), Cardiotonic agents (seed)
Human toxicity	-
Animal toxicity	-

Cultivation

It can be grown from seeds or cuttings of half ripe wood.

Mode	cuttings seedlings
Germination duration (days)	7 - 30
Germination temperacture (C°)	21 - 23
Germination luminosity	-
Germination treatment	-
Minimum temperature (C°)	1
Optimum temperature (C°)	-
Size	-
Vigor	-
Productivity	-