Aristolochia littoralis

Common name: Calico Flower

Family: Aristolochiaceae

Synonym(s): <i>Aristolochia elegans</i> M.T. Mast.]

Country of Origin: Brazil

Description: Slender woody climber; leaves triangular-reniform, to 3 inches long; flowers solitary, calyx tube inflated, to 1.5 inches long, yellow-green, limb nearly orbicular, entire, to 3 inches across, white veined with purple outside, rich purple-brown marked with white inside.

Botanical Description available on pg 160 of Revision of the North and Central American Hexandrous Species of Aristolochia (Aristolochiaceae), Howard W. Pfeifer, Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden, Vol. 53, No. 2. (1966), pp. 115-196.

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USDA Zone: 8a-10b

Source: RHS

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Classification:

• Division: Magnoliophyta
• Class: Magnoliopsida
• SubClass: magnoliids
• Order: Piperales
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• Family: Aristolochiaceae
• SubFamily: Aristolchioideae
• Tribe: Aristolochieae
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References:

1. Hortus Third, LH Bailey Hortorium, 1976
2. Pfeifer, Howard W., Revision of the North and Central American Hexandrous Species of Aristolochia (Aristolochiaceae), Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden, Vol. 53, No. 2. (1966), pp. 115-196.
3. The Plant List (2013). Version 1.1. Last accessed on Friday, November 10, 2017.
4. Aristolochia littoralis at Wikipedia. Last accessed on Friday, November 10, 2017.

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