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Bignonia callistegioides
Also called Love Charm, Lavender Trumpet Vine
Argentine trumpetvine is a fast-growing, woody, evergreen climber from South America, grown for its lavender-violet trumpet flowers. It needs warmth, sun and a strong support such as a trellis or pergola.
Bignonia callistegioides, also known as violet trumpet vine and lavender trumpet vine, is a vine native to southern Brazil and Argentina.
It is a heat-loving, frost tolerant plant that is grown as an ornamental plant on trellises, arbors, pergolas, wall covers or as a sprawling groundcover. It can be grown from stem cuttings or tip layering.
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Bignonia callistegioides by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.
The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
