- Changing tones during the season -
Summer in Brazil, particularly in Rio, is a very difficult for taking photos. The heat is terrible and it rains a lot.
So, I have no other alternative beside upload photos from my archives.
I hope do not bother you, my friends, with some images of flowers you already knew from uploads I did before.
Scientific name: Congea tomentosa
Popular names: Congea
Family: Verbenaceae
Category: Shrubs, Hedges, Vines
Climate: Equatorial, Oceanic, Subtropical, Tropical
Origin: Asia, Burma, India, Malaysia, Thailand
Height: 4.7 to 6.0 meters
Luminosity: Full sun
Congeia is a branching, woody vine known the world over for its decorative flowering. Its leaves are elliptic-oval, opposite, tomentose (hairy), evergreen, light green in color and with well-marked veins. At the end of winter and beginning of spring the congea blooms, displaying numerous white flowers, small and inconspicuous, but each surrounded by three bracts in the form of a helix, very showy and durable, which gradually change color, from pink to purple and then to gray over several weeks. Flowering is so dense and abundant that you can barely see the foliage.
Congeia is a very vigorous and lush vine with a delicate texture. It fits into different styles of gardens, and can cover fences, railings, arbors, pergolas and porticoes. It can also be used as a bush and hedge. Pruning, carried out after flowering, helps in the formation and containment of the plant and stimulates its consolidation. The flowering branches of congeia can also be used as cut flowers in bouquets and floral arrangements.
- Changing tones during the season -
Summer in Brazil, particularly in Rio, is a very difficult for taking photos. The heat is terrible and it rains a lot.
So, I have no other alternative beside upload photos from my archives.
I hope do not bother you, my friends, with some images of flowers you already knew from uploads I did before.
Scientific name: Congea tomentosa
Popular names: Congea
Family: Verbenaceae
Category: Shrubs, Hedges, Vines
Climate: Equatorial, Oceanic, Subtropical, Tropical
Origin: Asia, Burma, India, Malaysia, Thailand
Height: 4.7 to 6.0 meters
Luminosity: Full sun
Congeia is a branching, woody vine known the world over for its decorative flowering. Its leaves are elliptic-oval, opposite, tomentose (hairy), evergreen, light green in color and with well-marked veins. At the end of winter and beginning of spring the congea blooms, displaying numerous white flowers, small and inconspicuous, but each surrounded by three bracts in the form of a helix, very showy and durable, which gradually change color, from pink to purple and then to gray over several weeks. Flowering is so dense and abundant that you can barely see the foliage.
Congeia is a very vigorous and lush vine with a delicate texture. It fits into different styles of gardens, and can cover fences, railings, arbors, pergolas and porticoes. It can also be used as a bush and hedge. Pruning, carried out after flowering, helps in the formation and containment of the plant and stimulates its consolidation. The flowering branches of congeia can also be used as cut flowers in bouquets and floral arrangements.