Pithecoctenium cynanchoides Richard Lynch This is a white-flowered form

This is a white-flowered form of Rhododendron austrinum (which see)

and peeling cinnamon bark

the late flowers feed bees when little else blooms

the pink indigo

belongs firmly to the second kind

Pithecoctenium cynanchoides Richard Lynch This is a white-flowered formPithecoctenium cynanchoides, the monkey's comb, is a vigorous, tendril climbing vine of the trumpet creeper family, Bignoniaceae, native to the warm woodlands and thickets of South America. Semi evergreen in mild climates, the vine climbs by many branched tendrils and clothes a support quickly in heart shaped, three parted leaves, the terminal leaflet often turned into a grasping tendril of its own. Through the warm season the vine carries showy,