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Label name: Asclepias curassavica L.
Local and Common Names
Language
Blood-flower

Family: APOCYNACEAE
Label header: UCONN EEB CONSERVATORY | LIVING COLLECTION VOUCHERS
Verification summary: Label name: Asclepias curassavica L.


Locality information: USA: Connecticut: Tolland County: Mansfield, Storrs: University of Connecticut Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Greenhouses. 41°48'37"N, 72°15'21"W.
Accuracy of georeference / locality: 1 km
Collector(s) and number(s): Christopher T. Martine 1000
Collected with: Clinton Morse
Collection date: 29 Mar 2005
Description: Tropical America. Showy perennial to 1 m with woody base, stems with milky sap; oblanceolate leaves 5-15 cm long, the flowers in umbels with reflexed, 5 parted corolla brilliant red-purple, exposing the crown of 5 orange horned hoods. Accession #: 198500664. Plant used for EEB 271 lab.
Phenology: flowering
Location in CONN: Dry Storage
CONN Accession #: 129354
Barcode: CONN00068427
Last edited: NPT 19 JUL 07



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