Snail Vine! Dunedin Botanic Garden, New Zealand. I took these in the Tropical House of the Winter Garden Glasshouse on 26 December 2020.
Click on any photo to enlarge (they’re larger than I usually put up).
Text and photos by Liz; Exploring Colour (2020/2021)
Exploring Colour 
Exquisite photos of these otherworldly flowers, Liz!!
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Thanks! so glad you enjoyed them 🙂
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Cute curly flowers – it’s amazing the variety that you find in flower shapes… 🙂
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It is amazing, thinking about this after you mentioned it Aristolochia came to mind with its big floppy flowers .. some like handkerchiefs and some like balloons. Weird.
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Lol, Liz – I just did a google image search for Aristolochia – and what a weird collection of flowers it came up with. My mind is blown, hehe!
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‘blown’ 😀 …yes, the Aristolochia in the botanic gardens is near the snail vine but higher, and you see all these ‘hankies’ and inflated ‘balloons’ hanging high in the glasshouse. Very weird!
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Cool, and not something I was familiar with. And I love that purple shading!
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Very special sort of snails! I love the purple too.
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I wondered about the name, until I clicked on the photo and then it became immediately obvious, that’s cool.
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It is cool! fun plant 🙂
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We have a snailseed vine, but it’s the seeds that gave it the name, rather than the flower. These are lovely.
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I’d never heard of it! Great seeds. They remind me of little snail shells we see at some beaches here. Thanks for sharing Linda.
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