Botanical Name: Cydista aequinoctialis. Common Name: 'Garlic Vine'. Synonyms: Mansoa alliacea. A beautiful flowering tropical vine native to Belize and Central America. Flowers twice a year and you will quite often find it covered with flowers. The flowers start off a purple color and change to a lighter shade of lavender with age. Eventually they will fade to almost white. You can have three different colors of flowers at the same time. The vine has a strong garlic odor, and is even used as substitute for garlic in food. The entire plant - roots, vine and leaves, is useful. In traditional medicine it is used to reduce fevers, treat colds, throat, and respiratory ailments. The plant is said to help get rid a homestead of bad luck. Easy to grow from seeds. A low maintenance plant that tolerates dry soil and will grow in numerous soil conditions. They prefer full sun and like well drained soils. Given the right conditions, they will grow fast and produce abundant foliage and a continuous display of large, nicely colored blooms..
This item is a special packet of twenty five (25) Cydista aequinoctialis 'Garlic Vine' seeds, to be delivered upon receipt of payment.
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