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Podranea ricasoliana
Also called Port St John's Creeper, Port St. John's Creeper, Queen Of Sheba Vine, Zimbabwe Climber, Bubblegum Vine, Pandorea, Pink Trumpetvine
Zimbabwe creeper (Podranea ricasoliana) is an evergreen, twining climber with pink trumpet flowers, widely grown as a warm-climate garden vine. It thrives in full sun and well-drained soil and is frost-tender.
Podranea ricasoliana, called the pink trumpet vine, is a species of flowering plant in the genus Podranea, native to South Africa, Malawi, Mozambique and Zambia. It has gained the Royal Horticultural Society's Award of Garden Merit.
The home of the pink trumpet vine is in South Africa; there the species is endemic in the Port St. Johns area (between East London and Durban) at the mouth of the Mzimvubu River (but there are also suspicions that the species originally came from East Africa).
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Podranea ricasoliana 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.
