I do not have a camera, but will describe this vine. It grows on my fence, about on the drip line of a large pecan, so it receives at least half-day shade, has heart shaped leaves, and in the fall puts out tubular reddish orange or orangish red flowers that are about 2" long. The tube itself is very narrow, and the mouth of the tube opens to about an inch across, with about half that space taken up by the petals. The vine is not large or aggressive, gets about 5' tall, and has returned for the past several years. I don't notice it much until it blooms, usually in mid to late September through October. It disappears in the winter. The flowers remind me a lot of standing cypress flowers, only this is a vine with heart shaped leaves. I've checked my native plant books but haven't found it. The flowers are too small (across) to be morning glories, and the vine is not nearly as aggressive as morning glories. Can someone help?
Vine ID please
Could it be Scarlet Clematis? here is a link.
http://www.wildflower2.org/NPIN/Plants/Detail.asp?Symbol=CLTE2
Josephine.
Trumpet vine?
It is not scarlet clematis; the flower is not bell-shaped, but has a very narrow tube that is about 2" long and opens then. It is not trumpet vine; the tube is much narrower,and the leaves do not match trumpet vine. I'm befuddled. Thanks for the effort. I don't know where else to look.
Maybe this one? Cypress vine.
http://davesgarden.com/pf/go/93
I too think you are describing Cypress Vine................good diagnosis, frostweed!
Belinda :-)
I thought of cypress vine, but it doesn't have heart shaped leaves. I can't think of a vine with heart shaped leaves other than air potato and it doesn't have red blooms. I'm stumped.
Bring some cuttings to CSRU! Someone will ID it for you. And I will discard them old cuttings for you! Right into good ole Magnolia soil! lol
ooops, wrong thread!
This message was edited Oct 19, 2006 1:19 PM
I decided this was probably an ipomoea, and googled on images of ipomoea. The closest picture that I found was ipomoea coccinea. It is not an exact match, and isn't listed on the UT website that has central Texas flora. The color of the flower on the vine on my fence is a little more muted than the one in the picture, and the center is not yellow, but is a muted orangy-red. It's the closest I could find, though. Here's the website:
http://missouriplants.com/Redalt/Ipomoea_coccinea_plant.jpg
Oh!!! those are really pretty, I am glad you solved the mystery. But I also found this one just now.
http://davesgarden.com/pf/go/58095/index.html
Josephine.
OMG If this is close to yours, I would sure like one! I have a tall arched window in my dining room & I've been trying to find some colorful vine to hide it fr the outside.
Need any roses? I have a slew! About 8 different kinds that I am just trying to find homes for! If they stay @ my house, they will become deer food! Almost all are very fragrant!!!
LMK
I am uncertain if it is the ipomoea hederifolia, although it looks like that. The information indicates that it begins blooming in the spring. This one has volunteered on my fence for several years. I don't even notice the vine until the fall, which is when it begins blooming. I do try to keep bindweed off my fences, and monthly go around the yard fences cutting down bindweed vine. I don't think I have cut this down however. I think it just comes up late. Last year I had an injured shoulder and didn't do much around the yard. The vine and blooms only appeared in the fall, like now. Smockette, for this reason, I don't think what I have would work for you. However, if you would like some seeds, there are several green little round pod-things. I could wait for them to dry some and send you some, if I catch them before they open. This doesn't reseed itself vigorously, as I have only the one vine, so I don't know how difficult it will be to start from seed.