Candiospermum halicacabum

Candiospermum halicacabum

  • Candiospermum halicacabum
  • Candiospermum halicacabum
  • Candiospermum halicacabum
  • Candiospermum halicacabum
  • Candiospermum halicacabum
  • Candiospermum halicacabum
  • Candiospermum halicacabum
  • Candiospermum halicacabum
  • Candiospermum halicacabum
  • Candiospermum halicacabum
  • Candiospermum halicacabum
  • Candiospermum halicacabum
  • Candiospermum halicacabum
  • Candiospermum halicacabum
  • Flower name
    Candiospermum halicacabum
  • Scientific name
    Candiospermum halicacabum
  • Aliasハートピー, バルーンバイン, 風船葛, Heart pea, Balloon Vine
  • Place of originTropical America and South-East Asia
  • Place of floweringGarden
  • Flowering seasonJuly, August, September

What is Candiospermum halicacabum

Candiospermum halicacabum or Balloon vine (scientific name: Candiospermum halicacabum) is an evergreen vine 1.2 in grass of the Sapindaceae department Cardiospermumvgenus native to Tropical America and South-East Asiaea. Balloon-like fruit is popular as an ornamental. Give the balloons autumn white small 4 valve flowers bloom in the summer, from late summer to fall muscle pretty fruit. Balloon-shaped fruit, so it is also called, is called balloon vine. Seeds are black with white heart-shaped pattern, heart pea also known as. Because of tropical American and Southeast Asian origin hot, how strong and very sensitive to cold weather. With balloons and name plants, balloon Tang cotton(asclepias physocarpa).

Common name: balloon vine, scientific name: Candiospermum halicacabum, aka: Heart pea, Origin: tropical America, Southeast Asia, living type: Evergreen vine 1.2, grass, vine length: 2-3 m, rough saw blades: 3 produced biplane, leaf, leaf color: green, leaf and flower color: white, flower diameter:0.5 cm, flowering period: July-September, fruiting period: August to November, fruit shape: shape balloons, fruit diameter: 3 cm, Fruit color: green-yellow-brown (left), seed shape: spherical, seed color: black on white heart-shaped pattern


  • Order
    Sapindales
  • Family
    Sapindaceae
  • Genus
    Cardiospermum
  • Species
    C. halicacabum
  • Type of flower
    Radial symmetrical flower
  • Array of flower
    Cone / Compound inflorescence
  • Petal shape
    4 petals
  • Leaf type
    3-fold compound leaf
  • Edge of the leaf
    Serrated
  • Life typegrass for evergreen climbing biennial
  • Flower colorsWhite
  • Colors of the leavesGreen
  • Fruit colorGreen
  • Height200.0 ~ 300.0 cm
  • Diameter of flower0.5 ~ 0.5 cm

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