Camptosema praeandinum 26/4 Restock well-mannered shade maple for the

well-mannered shade maple for the South

who with her husband Robert founded Woodlanders

Set them where you pass close

at least in spirit

Crossvine was virtually unavailable from nurseries when Woodlanders began offering the plant in the early 1980s

Camptosema praeandinum 26/4 Restock well-mannered shade maple for theWoodlanders collected this one in the pre Andean foothills of northwest Argentina, which is exactly what the name says: praeandinum, before the Andes. The plant grows wild there between three and five thousand feet, in country that bakes by day and chills hard at night, and that upbringing shows. Heat that flattens lesser things does not faze this vine, which still comes back through a Zone 8 winter. The habit is a conversation in itself. Call this a