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Aristolochia gigantea

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Species of flowering plant

Aristolochia gigantea
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Magnoliids
Order: Piperales
Family: Aristolochiaceae
Genus: Aristolochia
Species: A. gigantea
Binomial name
Aristolochia gigantea
Mart. & Zucc.

Aristolochia gigantea

Aristolochia gigantea, the Brazilian Dutchman's pipe or giant pelican flower (syn. Aristolochia sylvicola Standl.), is an ornamental plant native to Brazil, Costa Rica and Panama. Typical of subtropical Bahia and Minas Gerais vegetation. This plant is cited in Flora Brasiliensis by Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius. A. gigantea and other tropical Dutchman's pipe varieties pose a threat to the pipevine swallowtail butterfly. The butterfly confuses A. gigantea with its native host plant and will lay eggs on it although pipevine swallowtail caterpillars cannot survive on the foliage because the leaves are toxic to the larvae.

Cultivation

In cultivation in the UK - where it must be grown under glass - this plant has gained the Royal Horticultural Society's Award of Garden Merit. It does not tolerate temperatures below 10 °C (50 °F). It can be grown from seeds or cuttings.

Morphology

It is a vigorous woody evergreen climber (vine). Leaves are simple with a cordate heart shape and a petiole. Inflorescence has a single zygomorphic (bilateral) flower that is bisexual. Contains 6 stamens that are fused to form a gynostemium. There is a syncarpous gynoecium present.

References

  1. ^ "Aristolochia gigantea - Plant Finder". www.missouribotanicalgarden.org. Retrieved 2024-06-03.
  2. "Aristolochia gigantia: A Death Sentence for Pipevine Swallowtails" by Guest Photographer, June 8. http://www.monarchbutterflygarden.net/aristolochia-gigantea-kills-pipevine-swallowtails/
  3. "RHS Plantfinder - Aristolochia gigantea". Royal Horticultural Society. Retrieved 12 January 2018.
  4. Simpson, Michael G. (2010), "Plant Systematics", Plant Systematics, Elsevier, pp. 3–16, ISBN 978-0-12-374380-0, retrieved 2024-10-16

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Aristolochia gigantea


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