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Bignoniaceae
Garlicvine
Mansoa alliacea
Also known as Bignonia family vine, Mansoa alliacea, False garlic vine, Pachyptera alliacea
Tropical Plants · Native Plants · Vine · Climbing · Fragrant · Purple · Flowers · Medicinal · Garlic · Scented · Tropical · Bignoniaceae
A vigorous climbing vine with fragrant purple flowers that smell like garlic when crushed. Prefers warm, humid conditions and benefits from regular feeding during growing season. Provide sturdy support as it can grow quite large and heavy.
Growing conditions
The details behind the basics
- Daily light
- 5 hours
- Watering
- Water thoroughly when top inch of soil is dry · Every 7-10 days
- Maintenance
- Moderate
- Soil
- loam
- Soil pH
- 6–7.5
- Temperature
- -10°F to 90°F
- Cycle
- Perennial
Hardiness
USDA 5a-9b
Form & growth
Mature size and habit
- Mature height
- 10 ft – 20 ft
- Spread
- 10 ft
- Spacing
- 48 in apart
- Growth rate
- Moderate
- Root depth
- Medium
- Flowers
- No
- Foliage
- Medium
Ecology & origin
Where it belongs and what it brings
- Native to
- Bahamas, Bolivia, Brazil North, Brazil Northeast, Caroline Is., Colombia, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Haiti, Leeward Is., Peru, Puerto Rico, Suriname, Trinidad-Tobago, Windward Is.
- Attracts
- Bees, Butterflies
Sources: trefle
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