The flowers are complex: the calice (chalice) bears a bud
that opens as a very impressive, intensly colored
( blue, purple or blue-purple) violet/pansy-like flower
that drops within two days, leaving the star-like
calice to slowly fade from lilac-blue to hazy- gray.
The leaves of the Sandpaper Vine are very rough on both
sides, like a sandpaper, even when they are young and green.
sides, like a sandpaper, even when they are young and green.
The flowers of the Sandpaper Vine come in racemes ( like
grapes). This raceme/bunch is the first "historic" one.
- Our vine is in bloom for the first time, since it was
planted five years ago. It grows in a clay pot outsde
of the family room window.
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