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  • COMMON NAME: Coral vine, Coralita, bee bushSan Miguelito vineو queen's wreath
  • ARABIC: إكليل الملكة
  • BOTANICAL NAME: Antigonon leptopus Hook. & Arn.
  • SYNONYMS: Antigonon amabie K.Koch
  • FAMILY: POLYGONACEAE
  • KIND: Introduced
  • EMIRATE: Dubai , Fujairah
  • CATEGORIES: Landscape (L)
  • GROWTH FORMS: Herbs
  • HABITATS: Terrace Sandy
  • TYPES: Perennial
http://www.worldfloraonline.org/taxon/wfo-0000538920#description V.V. Byalt, V.M. Korshunov, M.V. Korshunov. Cadaster of the Flora of Fujairah Emirate (United Arab Emirates). Al Fujairah 2021.
Ornamental plant.
Plants herbaceous or base some-times woody. Stems climbing or sprawling by tendrils, branched, angular, to 15 m, sparsely to densely brownish- or reddish-pubescent or glabrous. Leaves: ocrea 0.2-2 mm; petiole often winged distally, 1-2.5(-5) cm, glabrate or pubescent; blade 5-14 × (2-)4-10 cm, base usually cordate, margins ciliate, apex acute to acuminate, glabrous or pubescent, especially on veins. Inflorescences 4-20 cm, axes puberulent to pilose; peduncle angular, 1-5 cm, puberulent to pilose. Pedicels articulated proximally, 3-5(-10) mm, glabrous or pubescent. Flowers: tepals ovate to elliptic, 4-8 × 2-6 mm, 8-20 × 4-15 mm in fruit, margins entire, apex acute. Achenes 8-12 × 4-7 mm, shiny.
Grown in plant nurseries in Dubai and can be found in private gardens in Fujairah.
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