Handsome and beautiful in both flower and foliage, flame vine blooms with vivid orange flowers that look tremendous against a crisp, blue winter sky. A vigorous evergreen vine, it is native to South America, including Brazil, Argentina, Bolivia and Paraguay. Its satin-glossy, dark-green leaves are trifoliate, having three small leaflets. Each is oval to tear-drop shaped.Depending on temperature and climate, anytime from midwinter to early spring the flame vine lives up to its name with bright-orange, orange-red or golden-orange blossoms. Appearing in tight clusters, the many trumpet-shaped, slender flowers are found at stem tips and leaf nodes, usually "facing" outward from the foliage toward the sunlight. The entire vine is draped in fiery orange, truly a sight to delight a gardener.Grow flame vine in full sun and any reasonably rich, well-drained soil, including those of high alkalinity.Prune this vine back sharply after it has completed its annual flowering to keep it tamed as well as to promote heavy flowering the following year.
Mustansir Billah wrote:Hmmm... Very common in Karachi
Are you sure about this particular vine? I believe you are mixing it with Mexican flame vine which looks exactly the same from far away. See the entry for Senecio confusus. I don't recall seeing "Golden shower" anywhere in Karachi.
