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| distribution:
Burkina Faso Cameroon Niger |
| This is a
climbing plant with richly coloured flowers as beautiful as a perfect
dream. Its stems are pinkish or light red coloured throughout. The leaves are not succulent, they are olive-green, whereas the leaf-veins can be rose to pink coloured. The flowers are very large and also very showy, their base is, like in most other species, swollen, it is white and shows rose-coloured vertical stripes, at the bottom the darker flower-bottom inside the flower can be seen outside. The flower-tube is heavily pink, resp. rose-coloured with tiniest pink tittles, which change into stripes upward. The petals are lemon yellow and quite broad. At their tip they are united and extended into a antenna-like attachment. This is thread-like, as half as long as the rest of the flower and shows a small, pink 'little lantern' at the tip. All told this is one of the most colourful Ceropegia flowers at all. |
 left:Ceropegia rhynchantha Photo: by courtesy of Dr. Marco Schmidt |
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