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    Communities > Forums > Plant Identification
    Forum: Plant IdentificationReplies: 8, Views: 99
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    Guzmania2010
    Mexico
    Mexico

    January 26, 2013 4:57 PM

    Post #9398518

    Grows wild in Argentina. the flowers smell like honey bee.
    at least we would like to know which family belongs

    Thumbnail by Guzmania2010   Thumbnail by Guzmania2010
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    vngarden
    Seattle, WA

    January 26, 2013 8:26 PM

    Post #9398711

    family Solanaceae?

    Just guessing on this one. Low probability and not confident!
    Rlalique
    Bristol
    United Kingdom

    January 26, 2013 11:40 PM

    Post #9398776

    Looks like a Mandevilla.
    Rlalique
    Bristol
    United Kingdom

    January 26, 2013 11:48 PM

    Post #9398778

    Further research i would say Macrosiphonia longiflora.
    KayJones
    Panama City Beach, FL (Zone 8b)

    January 27, 2013 3:45 AM

    Post #9398813

    Beautiful!

    I wonder where you can get this plant - if anyone knows, dmail me!!!
    Vestia
    San Francisco, CA

    January 27, 2013 3:34 PM

    Post #9399368

    Rlalique wrote:Further research i would say Macrosiphonia longiflora.


    aka Mandevilla longiflora

    KayJones
    Panama City Beach, FL (Zone 8b)

    January 27, 2013 3:43 PM

    Post #9399376

    I've grown the white Mandevilla and mine didn't look like the O.P.'s pictures. After searching for Macrosiphonia longiflora. I don't see the plant offered here in the USA.
    Vestia
    San Francisco, CA

    January 27, 2013 4:36 PM

    Post #9399418

    the name Macrosiphonia is a considered by some to be a synonym of Mandevilla. See Simoes, et al, Novon 2007
    KayJones
    Panama City Beach, FL (Zone 8b)

    January 27, 2013 4:58 PM

    Post #9399430

    Ok, I finally found an image for Mandevilla longiflora:

    http://plantillustrations.org/illustration.php?id_illustrati...

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