SolandraMaxima01

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Solandra Maxima: Gold Cup, Cup-of-Gold, Trumpet Plant, copa de oro, chalice vine.

A large, smooth, woody, climbing shrub… Leaves are oblong, entire, pointed or blunt, smooth, 2 to 6 inches long. The rather short-lived flowers are borne singly at branch tips, have a goblet-shaped corolla with five broad, shallow lobes, are yellow becoming brownish yellow, marked longitudinally with five narrow purple streaks, and are about 9 inches long. The calyx is two- to five-lobed and about 3 inches long. The flowers have as sweet, mellow, more or less pleasing odor.

Cup of gold is often grown on large pergolas or trellises, or trained to grow up the side of a house where the spectacular flowers can spill down the walls over windows and doorways. Tolerant of salt spray and salty soils, all the chalice vines are excellent for seaside gardens. This is a large, rampant grower which requires plenty of space and a strong support.

The chalice vines are related to the angel trumpets (Datura spp. and Brugmansia spp.), and like them, have hallucinogenic properties. They are used in sacred ceremonies in Mexico.

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