Trumpet-vine

While somewhat overly aggressive, it can be controlled. The author allows it to climb palm trees but pulls them off the tree to limit their size every 3-5 years.

Climbs using tendrils with adhesive disks.



Plant this vine where it has support and where its showy flowers are visible. Climbs with aerial roots which can damage brick and stucco, so best allowed to climb trees, poles, trellises and similar structures.

Not salt tolerant of inundation by salty or brackish water.



Some tolerance to salty wind but not direct salt spray.

This is a fast growing vine. It also layers and suckers. These characteristics can make it weedy. It climbs by means of aerial rootlets, which can damage wood, stone, and brick.

Very attractive to hummingbirds which are its primary pollinators.

Dry-moist sites. Riverine forests, mesic & dry mesic hammock especially where disturbed.

• Showy flowers
• Larval host for the plebeian sphinx (Paratraea plebeja) moth.