Find Your Ask the Expert: Please help me identify this flower/shrub Mandevilla
I would really love to know what sort of bush this is… if you could, I would be very grateful. Brooke
Plant Expert Reply:
What you have is a vining shrub called mandevilla. It once went by the name Dipladenia splendens but the correct name is Mandevilla x amoena. At my husband’s garden center, we sell a cultivar called Alice du Pont. The plants are hardy in zones 9-11 and live year round. In zone 8 they die back in the winter and came back from the roots in the spring. In all other zones it is treated as an annual.
It loves full sun. Although a little mid-day shade is appreciated. They like plenty of moisture but it must have well-drained soil.
Thank You! I appreciate your reply. I think I may have found it after
endless searching. The mandevilla looks really close and it may even be…
but Allamanda blanchetii has also caught my attention and I think this
another possibility.
Thanks so much!
Brooke
I just saw this plant in Kauai, Hawaii on a garden fence. I agree that it is Allamanda blanchetii. The Allamandas have really distinct dimples where the petals meet the flute of the flower. A. cathartica, the yellow one, was growing beside it.
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This is definitely alamanda spp. ‘cherries jubilee’ a common summer blooming in so. Florida.
hi
the picture depicts an alamanda species really
George,
I see your point of view and how the plant could be identified as a Allamanda. I am unfamiliar with the pink Allamanda violacea, but most Allamanda I have seen in the US are the yellow ones.
Plant identification can often be confusing. Common names can be shared among a variety of different plants. Plants in the same family can often be interchanged or mistakenly used. In the case of Mandevilla versus Allamanda this is often the case. Mandevillea splendens ‘Alice Dupont’ is the scientific name for a pink blooming plant in the Apocynaceae family. The common name for the same plant is ‘Alice du Pont’ Allamanda. While Allamanda cathartica is the scientific name for a yellow blooming plant in the Apocynaceae family and commonly called golden trumpet allamanda.
Hopefully others will chime in on the identification of this plant. I would love to know which member of the Apocynaceae family it really is. Thanks for pointing out another possibility.
Cherries Jubilee Alamanda. Ours will freeze back to nothing but by the end of summer
it is taller than our fence. ((coastal central florida)