How to identify Chinese Trumpet Creeper
Identify Chinese Trumpet Creeper by combining habit, leaf characters, flower or fruit details, location, and its family pattern. Do not rely on one feature alone.
- Confirm leaf type: Pinnately compound.
- Confirm leaf shape: Lanceolate.
- Confirm flower colour: Orange.
- Confirm flower arrangement: Panicle.
- In India, compare location records such as Uttarakhand.
- Confirm it sits within the Bignoniaceae family pattern, then compare close relatives before deciding it is Chinese Trumpet Creeper.
Plant Details
- Scientific name
- Campsis grandiflora
- Genus
- Campsis
- Family
- Bignoniaceae
- Found in India
- Uttarakhand
- Conservation status
- Not Evaluated (NE)
Leaf characters
- Leaf type
- Pinnately compoundrecordedLeaflets are arranged in rows along a central stalk, like a feather.
- Leaf shape
- LanceolaterecordedLong and narrow, tapering to a point, like a lance head.“Petioles of leaflets 5(-10) mm, shape from oval-ovate to oval-lanceolate, 3-6(-9) x 1.5-3(-5) cm.” — Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0
Typical of the family
- Arrangement
- Opposite
Characters marked “recorded” are for Chinese Trumpet Creeper itself; the rest are typical of the Bignoniaceae family.
Flower & fruit characters
- Flower colour
- Orangerecorded
- Flower arrangement
- PaniclerecordedA branching cluster of clusters.“Inflorescences are short panicles at the ends of shoots.” — Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0
- Fruit type
- LegumerecordedA dry pod that splits open along two seams (typical of the pea/bean family).“The fruit is a capsule-pod, rounded end, 7-12 cm long.” — Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0
Typical of the family
- Flower symmetry
- Zygomorphic (bilaterally symmetrical)
- Inflorescence
- Panicle
- Fruit
- Capsule
Characters marked “recorded” are for Chinese Trumpet Creeper itself; the rest are typical of the Bignoniaceae family — flowering plants only.
About Chinese Trumpet Creeper
Chinese Trumpet Creeper (Campsis grandiflora) belongs to the Bignoniaceae family. In India it has been recorded in Uttarakhand.
Bignoniaceae
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Chinese Trumpet Creeper belongs to the Bignoniaceae family.
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