Beaumontia

BEAUMONTIA (boh-mon’-shi-ah). Vigorous woody vines of the tropics. One species, Beaumontia grandiflora (Heralds Trumpet) is sometimes grown in warm greenhouses or outdoors in the South. Under glass it is not happy when confined in a pot, doing better when planted out in a solid bed or border of good soil and trained to the roof.

It has large oval leaves, and large white, fragrant trumpet-shaped flowers, borne in terminal clusters in spring. The wood needs to be well ripened to induce flowering; afterwards a hard pruning should be given to produce laterals for the next season’s bloom. Propagated by cuttings.

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