Yellow Orchid Vine on trellis

Form: Vine
Seasonality: Deciduous perennial
Size: to 15 feet
Flowers: Many clusters of yellow 5 petaled blossoms, the petals shaped like paddles
Fruit: Yellow green seed pods
Stems/Trunks: A vine with opposite 3 inch leaves resembling Honeysuckle
Range/Origin: Mexico
Hardiness: Sunset 12 - 24

LANDSCAPE VALUE:

• Useful for trellis, flowers at hottest time of year

CULTURAL REQUIREMENTS:

• Exposure: Full sun
• Water: Moderate
• Soil: Normal desert soil
• Propagation: Seed
• Maintenance: Little required

Yellow Orchid Seed capsule

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This page compiled for the Moody Demonstration Garden by D. Post 19 Mar 2004
Photo's by D. Post
Ref: Sunset Western Garden Book; Sunset Books Inc.; Menlo Park, CA 94025, 6th ed.

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