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Thunbergia bicolor

Thunbergia bicolor
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Thunbergia bicolor, the bicolor clockvine, is a climbing or scrambling plant from the Acanthus family, native to the evergreen forests of southwest India. Grow it warm and humid with bright light and steady moisture, as it is a tropical plant that cannot tolerate frost.

Family
Acanthaceae (Acanthus family)
Light
Bright indirect, Part shade
Water
Keep the soil evenly moist during the growing season and reduce watering slightly in winter.
Soil
Rich, well-draining peat-based or loam mix.
Temperature
18–30 °C; protect below 10 °C
How easy
Moderate
Native range
SW. India
Climate
wet tropical

About

Thunbergia bicolor, also known as the bicolor clockvine, is a species of flowering plant within the family Acanthaceae.

Where it grows

Thunbergia bicolor is endemic to Southwest India, where it can be found growing in South Western Ghats montane rain forests. This species has been found to inhabit the evergreen forests of both Kerala and Tamil Nadu.

Other Thunbergia plants

Blackeyed Susan vine · Thunbergia annua · Natal primrose · Blue Glory Vine · Scarlet Clock Vine · Bush clockvine · Whitelady · Bengal trumpet · Golden Clockvine · Laurel clockvine · Thunbergia mildbraediana · Mysore Trumpetvine

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Thunbergia bicolor 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.

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