Food Plants International - Plant Fact Sheets Pyrostegia venusta - Flaming Trumpet, Flame Vine, Golden Shower

Edible Portion: Flowers

A woody vine. It is fast growing and keeps its leaves throughout the year. The leaves are compound with 2 or 3 oval leaflets. The leaves are in opposite pairs along the stem. The central leaflet can be a coiled tendril. The flowers are reddish-orange. They are tube shaped and 9 cm long. They are in clusters or 15-20 at the tips of the branches. The flower clusters often hang down. The fruit are slender dry capsules about 25 cm long.

Other names :

Akar hujan emas, Akar trompet emas, Kyet-thon-pyu-nwe, Shwe-let-chaung, Shwe-zizawa, Tanga pu,Orange Trumpet Vine

Bignonia ignea Vell.;
Bignonia venusta;
and others