Persian Carpet Flower Plant

It has a high tolerance for heat and drought.

Persian carpet flower plant. It is a warm weather plant that prefers partial shade and well drained soils. Join our friendly community that shares tips and ideas for gardens along with seeds and plants. Require much light and relatively high winter temperatures. It has gained a reputation as a particularly difficult plant to keep alive because of its very specific growing needs with much light and relatively high above 60 f 15 c winter temperatures.

Browse pictures and read growth cultivation information about ceropegia species persian carpet flower ceropegia sordida supplied by member gardeners in the plantfiles database at dave s garden. Magnoliophyta flowering plants class. The remarkable flower is at times described as the persian carpet flower. Welcome to the famous dave s garden website.

It is native to africa and to the arabian peninsula. The persian carpet flower edithcolea grandis is a perennial evergreen. Magnoliopsida dicotyledons subclass. The carrion like smell of the flowers attracts flies and other insects for pollination.

Persian carpet flower is occasionally cultivated as an ornamental in desert gardens worldwide. The genus is named after edith cole 1859 1940. Once classified in the family asclepiadaceae it is now in the subfamily asclepiadoideae of the dogbane family apocynaceae. The flowers are 3 inches in diameter and bloom from early spring to late summer with brown spots.

Edithcolea is a monotypic genus with a single species edithcolea grandis persian carpet flower.