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Some plants are admired for their delicate beauty, some for their sweet fragrance and others for their vivid colors. Dutchman's pipe (Aristolochia elegans) isn't one of those. This flowering evergreen ...
We're proud to announce that our California pipevine has finally bloomed, after years of biding its time. The meerschaum-shaped flowers of Aristolochia californica are one of those harbingers of ...
Many of the tropical plants you see growing in botanical greenhouses are beyond the reach of most Bay Area gardeners. One wonderful exception is Aristolochia, commonly called Dutchman's pipe. Hailing ...
Question: In a May 30, 2008 question regarding the toxicity of certain Aristolochia species to pipevine swallowtail larvae, I had heard the same from at a talk from the curator of the Cockrell ...
LAKELAND -- There's no sitting on the fence when it comes to Dutchman's pipe vines -- people either love them or hate them. That's not surprising, because the flowers of Dutchman's pipe vines are ...
Journal of the Botanical Research Institute of Texas, Vol. 13, No. 1 (23 JULY 2019), pp. 235-240 (6 pages) Aristolochia bahiensis F. González and Aristolochia hypoglauca Kuhlm. are reported as new ...
Early spring’s windy days create an orchestra of sounds in the garden; the last of the sycamore leaves, brittle and brown, tumble along the pathways crackling as they move, the gray pines capture the ...
Aristolochia subgenus Siphisia comprises about 70 species, with a disjunct East- and South Asian to North- and Central American distribution. Here we describe and illustrate three new species of ...