Tropicals & Tender Perennials: Mucuna species, 1 by Clare_CA

Clare_CA wrote:
I have one of these vines too from Logee's. It is a hybrid which is supposed to be more cold hardy than Mucuna bennetti which is very sensitive to cold. I tried to enter it into the Plants Database as Mucuna species, but they didn't want the "species" name as the species so I just entered it as M. bennetti. Logee's talks about it just a little in their book about Container Gardening.

Mine is about 8 feet tall, and it too is covered in the long racemes. I am just starting to see a trace of red. I will post more pictures of it when it does bloom.

T, if I am not mistaken, I think M. albertisii is supposed to be white. Here's a thread: http://davesgarden.com/forums/t/422440/