Echites

ECHITES (ee-ky’-teez). Twining shrubs of tropical America, belonging to the Dogbane Family. They succeed under the same treatment as Dipladenia, which see. Echites tomentosa (Savannah-flower) is a very hairy plant with yellow and red flowers. Echites nutans has beautiful leaves of pale green with transparent red veins and bears panicles of yellow nodding flowers. Echites umbellata has white or pale yellow flowers in umbels.

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