Petrea volubilis

Description

• Petrea volubilis, commonly known as purple wreath, queen’s wreath or sandpaper vine, is an evergreen flowering vine in the family Verbenaceae, native to Tropical America, that is valued especially for its display of violet flowers.

• As a climbing plant, it grows to a height of 12 m (39 ft), but as a shrub it grows to 4 m (13 ft) tall.[3] It is a vine or semi-climbing shrub with puberulent stems, sometimes reaching 10 cm (3.9 in) in diameter. Leaves are elliptical-oblong, 5–16cm long and 3–8cm wide, apex acute or obtuse, base wedge-shaped, entire margin, sometimes sinuous, glabrous or pubescent, rough to the touch; petiole 0.2–1 cm long.[4][2]

• It blooms almost 5-6 months in a year, from March to June and somewhere starts from November also. GROWING TIPS – It can grow almost in all types of soil and it can easily be grown in any Indian Climatic condition