Latitude and Longitude (WGS84):
-43.530379 172.620934
Verbatim locality:
Christchurch, Botanic Gardens
Verbatim collector:
W.R. Sykes 34/02
Standardised collector:
William R. Sykes
Verbatim date:
27 3 2002
Start date:
2002-03-27
Country:
New Zealand
Land District:
Canterbury Land District
Habitat:
Cultivated in glasshouse.
Notes:
Large vine or liane. Leaves glaucescent beneath. Flowers on pendent pedicels. Proximal 10 cm of corolla pendent, c. 10 x 5 cm, forming an inflated pale green obovoid structure; middle 5 cm at right angles, pale green and expanding distally; main corolla limb c. 38 x 30 cm in face view, strongly mottled brown and white, very undulate and fragile; base and apex 2-lobed; mouth a narrow slit. Cult. as Aristolochiagigantea.