Tecomaria capensis Colored Foliage ferdinandi is spelled correctly)

ferdinandi is spelled correctly)

that was presumed extinct until five small populations were rediscovered around 1980

This is one truly spectacular plant that will have all the neighbors drooling

so each plant is slightly different

Tecomaria capensis Colored Foliage ferdinandi is spelled correctly)(aka: Tecoma capensis) Tecomaria capensis hails from the South African Cape (east and west) into Natal, but according to all the books, should not be winter hardy for us. Thank goodness we keep our plants illiterate. Despite being a giant clambering evergreen shrub in warmer climates, where it remains woody, Tecomaria capensis is a well behaved, very drought tolerant deciduous perennial for us, surviving our single digit winter temperatures for at