Thunbergia mysorensis

The thunbergia I know is common in Europe. It's Thunbrgia Alata and is an annual climber with white or yellow flowers with a dark black middle , so it can also be called Black-eyed Susan.

Oh my..! I'm sooooo jealous... ! I've tried to grow this vine twice now and it just will not cooperate with me. All the gardeners around here said it wouln't survive in our soil, but I had to try it anyway....twice, lol. So I hope you don't mind if I occasionally come back to this post and admire yours !

Yes, there are several species. Do you have a blue one, like a bell shaped flower??? I have a picture of that one too, it also was a vine. I don't know its specie name, but it is a Thunbergia.

Our Thunbergia is so different to this!

Great photo and lovely plant/climber

Thank you Marieballs. They are out in great force at the moment and we are enjoying them tremendously. We have little yellow breasted honey eaters who just dangle on the bunches and sometimes it is hard to tell the difference, as they are the same yellow as the flowers. So cute!

very beautiful

I have these in my garden, they flower a long long time. Funny how the common name seems different in different countries. We call them lady slipper vine, for obvious reasons. I have one growing in a wrong spot, I cut it all back to the base, but the darn thing will not die. Guess round up would be the best. When I say the wrong spot is because it climbs right into a rainforest tree in my garden, strangulates its branches, which then become so heavy with this vine, they break off. It was the only way to rescue this tree and the heliconia's growing next to it. I have one under a pergola, which is still in flower today. Either side of it are the Strongolodin macrobotrys, which are starting again after flowering twice in a row. Together it makes for a spectacular display.

I think it may be in the timing when the flower come out. Just a guess.

I just looked this up on internet.
Can't find out why the name Clock Vine ~
maybe because it grows so fast?
Apparently it's also called Brick and Butter Vine and Dolls' Shoes.

They were very pretty Tina2 and must be very sweet too, because the flowers were covered in ants. The vine is growing indoors at San Francisco's Conservatory of Flowers. I just copied what the sign said Marguerite, so I am not sure why we call it 'clock vine' here. Gardengnome has a good thought as to why :) I liked how the flowers hung from what looked like a thread.

The flowers do resemble (slightly) the pendulum of a grandfather clock. Though, I don't know if that is the reason they were named.

Hi Tasteyg, this is really funny, as they are still flowering in my garden too. We call the Thunbergia mysorensis lady slipper vine, for obvious reasons. Why do you think in CA they call them clock vine?

What beautiful flowers and a great colour

If you have anymore trouble with it Marguerite, let me know and I'll send you a bushel of our dirt...lol. I found out the hard way, that these vines aren't very fond of our soil.

HI Flcrazy, I cannot possibly imagine you killing the plant. I have another one, which I should dig out. It grew like mad killing others by strangling it. It was in my shadeclothed jungle, growing up the posts into the native trees and heliconia's. I kept cutting it back and in the end I cut it off right at the base, which resembles a grapevine, knots and twists. Would you think it would grow again. Yes! It did. So every now and then out come the secateurs, but I better get a shovel I think.

I've loved this plant for years, even broke down and bought a small one once, and I turned right around and killed it two months later...lol. So I'll just drool over yours if that is alright with you !

Hi Poetgardener, it is not rubbery, it is soft and you touch it gently. They feel a bit like snapdragons and you can squeeze them alike. The birds just love them and they hang and dangle along with the string.

It looks as if it's growing upside down..the color is just beautiful...like a picture! It looks almost succulant, and rubbery, is it?

Thanks Aleyna.

Nice colors, great shot Marguerite

These vines flower mid winter- summer and then they grow new shoots. These now are the last ones of 3 times new flowering periods. It seems they are there forever. It's bird attractiting and we do enjoy them to sing for us during our lunch on the veranda.

Marguerite,

Does this plant bloom all year where you live?

this is beautiful Marguerite amazing colours

I want it to be spring now...I am not wanting win-terrrr...bwaaaaaa...snivel..you are so lucky to have plants bloooommmiiinnngg....bwaaaaa....

Thanks Skippy.

What an intersting color and shape...Nice picture,M