"DavePoole Torquay" wrote in message
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Sacha wrote:
Is anyone growing this? I ask simply because they're in flower now and
it's
just such a lovely, delicate plant. It's a sport of the better known P.
caerulea, I think and it's white and wonderful AND it's as hardy as its
cousin.

As you know, I got one a few months ago and it has grown like the
blazes, flowering all the way. I've been training the stems back and
forth horizontally to get the maximum lateral cover, which means some
of them must now be a good 15 or so feet long. Not bad for a 3 footer
planted in April. I don't find the normal form of coerulea very
attractive at all, but this is in a totally different league and
seriously refined. The flowers are slightly smaller than the species,
but their translucent white sepals and pure white corolla are far more
effective than the blue and pale green of coerulea.

I have it growing with the reddish-purple P. x coeruleo-racemosa and am
looking forward to seeing them both out together. I suspect the whole
lot is going to be yet another one of my 'tangles', because Araujia
sericofera rushing along to join 'Constance' and her companion.
In-between, an 'orchid vine' - Bauhinia yunnanensis is weaving its way
through hinting at a show of purplish pink, orchid-like flowers the
weeks to come. There's already been a 'crash' in the middle and all
manner of tendrils are flailing about. I do like it when everything
gets close and personal

The Araujia is a decidedly handsome climber in its own way. Vaguely
Stephanotis-like, the fragrant white flowers are carried in clusters,
some being haphazardly splashed or spotted with pink of varying
intensity. It is a good evergreen with silvery backed, leathery, deep
green leaves and can put on quite a show from late summer onwards. Its
party-piece however, is that night flying moths searching for nectar
are held fast by their probosces and not released until the sun has
gained strength the following day. On some mornings in late summer,
there are several dozen moths hanging from the flowers. A gruesomely
curious sight.

So the Araujia gets really close and personal with the moths.
Why does it do that?-- naughty sexy explanations (if you must)