This flower was seen growing near a lake fromed by an extinct volcano in Nicaragua.. can anyone be of hep in it's ID... OH it is a vine..... Thanks Gordon
Plant Id Needed Please
OH.. this is it's seed pod... on the vine.... Gordon
This is a picture of what the vine looks like growing in the wild... .. any ID help on this one... Thanks... Gordon
Joseph.. ID'd this as in the Virgin Islands a vine they call cow itch.. through how you feel if you touch the tiny hairs on the seed pod... thanks All... Gordon
The vine itself reminds me of Combretum fruticosum, but the seed pod sure doesn't!
-Ron-
>ID'd this as in the Virgin Islands a vine they call cow itch
Really?
I find a couple different vines named Cow Itch.
Mucuna pruriens (which looks like the Australian equivalent of kudzu)
http://www.weeds.org.au/cgi-bin/weedident.cgi?tpl=plant.tpl&state=&s=&ibra=all&card=V19
-or-
Campsis radicans
http://davesgarden.com/pf/go/644/
Both have really different flowers from yours.
Are you sure there aren't a couple different things there?
PS. Ron, Combretum sure are cool. I hadn't seen those before. Interesting that the flowers are so similar in appearance to those in the family Myrtaceae yet are from Africa.
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Indeed my seed pod looks line one of them.. and a browner verdion than the green of Seedpicker on Dg's database on the name.. but the flowers don''t resemble them in any manner... the sffect of thoes little hairs is exactly the same... but perhaps shold be called cow fire itch.. Gordon
Gordon, here's a better image of Combretum fruticosum. It is native to Central and South America.
http://www.tfts.org/combretum_fruticosum.htm
The seedpods to all Combretums look like papery propellers.
http://pharm1.pharmazie.uni-greifswald.de/systematik/7_bilder/yamasaki/Combretum.jpg
Are you sure that there wasn't a Mucuna vine (cow itch) mixed in with the Combretum when you took the photo? The flower and the vine look like a Combretum but the seed pod looks like it is from the bean family.
Here is Mucuna pruriens (cow itch) seed:
http://www.rain-tree.com/Plant-Images/mucuna_pruriens.jpg
-Ron-