Plant Information

Common Name: VINE - PURPLE WREATH
Scientific Name: Petrea volubilis
Alternative Names: Queen's wreath, Sandpaper vine

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Description

• Perennial
• Purple Wreath is an evergreen flowering climber with drooping long racemes of delicate violet-purple star-like flowers.
• It is a semi-shrub and semi-climber, and the small wooden trunk develops artistic curves over the years.
• Purple Wreath looks as if an Ikebana expert has shaped it for his floral arrangement.
• It start to flower in spring - the flowers come in raceme reaching over 30cm long.
• The flowers remain for more than a month on the plant and attract butterflies.
• Purple Wreath's rough texture of the leaves resemble sandpaper especially when you touch the leave – therefor it is also called Sandpaper vine.
• It prefers full sun - and can tolerate shade, although it will then not flower profusely.
• Purple Wreath can handle frost at temperatures down to -2 °C.
• It can be grown in big pots/containers.

Parts Used

• Aboveground parts.

Medicinal Uses. It is said that

• Studies have shown anti-diabetic, anti-oxidant, anti-inflammatory, antipyretic and anticancer properties.
• In Bangladesh it is used for diabetes.
• The Wayapi ethnic group in Brazil traditionally used a preparation with sap to treat burns, wounds, inflammation and abscesses.
• In the Caribbean it is used to treat diarrhea.

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