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s belonging to the family

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. It was first described as a genus in 1840. A common name is rocktrumpet. ''Mandevilla'' species are native to the Southwestern United States,

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. The genus was named after Henry Mandeville (1773-1861), a British diplomat and gardener."Botanica. The Illustrated AZ of over 10000 garden plants and how to cultivate them", p 562. Könemann, 2004.

Cultivation and uses

Mandevillas develop spectacular, often fragrant flowers in warm climates. The flowers come in a variety of colours, including white, pink, yellow, and red. Many hybrids have been developed, mainly deriving from ''M.'' × ''amabilis'', '' M. splendens'', and '' M. sanderi''. As climbers, Mandevillas can be trained against a wall or trellis to provide a leafy green, and often flowering covering. The

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s ''Mandevilla'' × ''amabilis'' 'Alice du pont' and ='Sunparapibra' have won the

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's Award of Garden Merit.

Species

Accepted speciesKew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
/ref> * '' Mandevilla abortiva'' - Bahia, Goiás * '' Mandevilla acutiloba'' - Mexico to Honduras * '' Mandevilla aequatorialis'' - Ecuador * '' Mandevilla albifolia'' - Venezuela * ''

Mandevilla alboviridis ''Mandevilla'' is a genus of tropical and subtropical flowering vines belonging to the family Apocynaceae. It was first described as a genus in 1840. A common name is rocktrumpet. ''Mandevilla'' species are native to the Southwestern United S ...

'' - Peru, Colombia * '' Mandevilla amazonica'' - S Venezuela * '' Mandevilla anceps'' - S Venezuela, NW Brazil * '' Mandevilla andina'' - Bolivia * '' Mandevilla angustata'' - S Venezuela, Guyana * '' Mandevilla angustifolia'' - Bolivia, Paraguay, N Argentina * '' Mandevilla annulariifolia'' - S Venezuela, NW Brazil, SE Colombia * ''

Mandevilla antioquiana ''Mandevilla'' is a genus of tropical and subtropical flowering vines belonging to the family Apocynaceae. It was first described as a genus in 1840. A common name is rocktrumpet. ''Mandevilla'' species are native to the Southwestern United S ...

'' - Antioquia in Colombia * ''

Mandevilla apocynifolia ''Mandevilla'' is a genus of tropical and subtropical flowering vines belonging to the family Apocynaceae. It was first described as a genus in 1840. A common name is rocktrumpet. ''Mandevilla'' species are native to the Southwestern United S ...

'' - Jalisco, Nayarit, Michoacán * ''

Mandevilla aracamunensis ''Mandevilla'' is a genus of tropical and subtropical flowering vines belonging to the family Apocynaceae. It was first described as a genus in 1840. A common name is rocktrumpet. ''Mandevilla'' species are native to the Southwestern United S ...

'' - S Venezuela * '' Mandevilla arcuata'' - Peru, S Colombia * '' Mandevilla aridana'' - Santander in Colombia * '' Mandevilla assimilis'' - Ecuador * '' Mandevilla atroviolacea'' - S Brazil * '' Mandevilla bahiensis'' - Bahia * '' Mandevilla barretoi'' - Minas Gerais * '' Mandevilla benthamii'' - SE Venezuela, Guyana * '' Mandevilla bogotensis'' - NW Venezuela, Ecuador, Colombia * '' Mandevilla boliviensis'' - Costa Rica to Bolivia + E Brazil * '' Mandevilla brachyloba'' - Bolivia, Peru, NW Argentina * '' Mandevilla brachysiphon'' - Arizona, New Mexico, N Mexico * '' Mandevilla bracteata'' - Ecuador, Colombia * '' Mandevilla bradei'' - Goiás * '' Mandevilla callacatensis'' - Peru * '' Mandevilla callista'' - Colombia, Peru, Ecuador, Bolivia * '' Mandevilla caquetana'' - Caquetá in Colombia * '' Mandevilla catimbauensis'' - Pernambuco * '' Mandevilla caurensis'' - SE Colombia, S Venezuela * '' Mandevilla cercophylla'' - Ecuador, SW Colombia, Peru * '' Mandevilla clandestina'' - Brazil * '' Mandevilla coccinea'' - Brazil, Uruguay, Paraguay, NE Argentina * '' Mandevilla columbiana'' - S Colombia * '' Mandevilla convolvulacea'' - Puebla, Oaxaca * '' Mandevilla crassinoda'' - Rio de Janeiro * '' Mandevilla cuneifolia'' - SE Colombia, NW Brazil * '' Mandevilla cuspidata'' - Peru, Bolivia * '' Mandevilla dardanoi'' - Pernambuco * '' Mandevilla dissimilis'' - Ecuador * '' Mandevilla duidae'' - Amazonas in Venezuela * '' Mandevilla emarginata'' - Brazil, Uruguay, Paraguay, NE Argentina, Bolivia * '' Mandevilla duartei'' - Minas Gerais * '' Mandevilla equatorialis'' - Ecuador * '' Mandevilla espinosae'' - Ecuador * '' Mandevilla exilicaulis'' - Michoacán, Colima, Jalisco * '' Mandevilla eximia'' - S Brazil * '' Mandevilla filifolia'' - S Venezuela * '' Mandevilla fistulosa'' - SE Bahia, Espírito Santo * '' Mandevilla foliosa'' - Chihuahua to Oaxaca * '' Mandevilla fragilis'' - Bolivia * '' Mandevilla fragrans'' - S Brazil * '' Mandevilla frigida'' - Piura in Peru * '' Mandevilla funiformis'' - S + SE Brazil * '' Mandevilla glandulosa'' - Peru * '' Mandevilla gracilis'' - S Colombia, NW Brazil, Venezuela, Guyana * '' Mandevilla grata'' - Tucumán in Argentina * '' Mandevilla grazielae'' - E Brazil * '' Mandevilla guanabarica'' - Espírito Santo, Rio de Janeiro * '' Mandevilla harleyi'' - Minas Gerais * '' Mandevilla hatschbachii'' - Bahia * '' Mandevilla hesperia'' - Baja California Sur * '' Mandevilla hirsuta'' - S Mexico to Paraguay * '' Mandevilla holosericea'' - México State to Oaxaca * '' Mandevilla holstii'' - Amazonas in Venezuela * '' Mandevilla horrida'' - Cajamarca * '' Mandevilla huberi'' - Amazonas in Venezuela * '' Mandevilla hypoleuca'' - Mexico, Texas * '' Mandevilla illustris'' - Paraguay, Brazil * '' Mandevilla immaculata'' - S Brazil * '' Mandevilla inexperata'' - Ecuador * '' Mandevilla jamesonii'' - Ecuador * '' Mandevilla jasminiflora'' - Colombia * '' Mandevilla javitensis'' - SE Colombia, NW Brazil, Venezuela, Guyana * '' Mandevilla kalmiifolia'' - Cerro Duida in Venezuela * '' Mandevilla krukovii'' - NW Brazil * '' Mandevilla lancibracteata'' - Colombia, Ecuador, Venezuela * '' Mandevilla lancifolia'' - SE Colombia, S Venezuela * '' Mandevilla lanuginosa'' - S Texas, Mexico * ''

Mandevilla laxa ''Mandevilla laxa'', commonly known as Chilean jasmine,"Botanica. The Illustrated AZ of over 10000 garden plants and how to cultivate them", pp. 562-563. Könemann, 2004. is an ornamental plant in the genus '' Mandevilla'' of family Apocynaceae. ...

'' - Bolivia, Peru, N Argentina * '' Mandevilla leptophylla'' - Bahia, Minas Gerais * '' Mandevilla ligustriflora'' - Ecuador * '' Mandevilla lobbii'' - Peru * '' Mandevilla lojana'' - Ecuador * '' Mandevilla longiflora'' - Bolivia, Paraguay, Uruguay, N Argentina, Brazil * '' Mandevilla longipes'' - Colombia * '' Mandevilla lucida'' - Rio de Janeiro * '' Mandevilla luetzelburgii'' - Espírito Santo * '' Mandevilla macrosiphon'' NE Mexico, S Texas * '' Mandevilla martiana'' - E Brazil * '' Mandevilla martii'' - C Brazil * '' Mandevilla matogrossana'' - Bolívar in Venezuela, Mato Grosso * '' Mandevilla megabracteata'' - NE Colombia, Guyana * '' Mandevilla mexicana'' - Oaxaca * '' Mandevilla microphylla'' - Bahia * '' Mandevilla mollissima'' - Colombia * '' Mandevilla montana'' - SW Colombia, Ecuador, Peru * '' Mandevilla moricandiana'' - E Brazil * '' Mandevilla moritziana'' - NE Colombia, Venezuela * '' Mandevilla muelleri'' - SE Brazil * '' Mandevilla myriophylla'' - C Brazil * '' Mandevilla nacapulensis'' - Sonora * '' Mandevilla nacarema'' - Colombia * '' Mandevilla nerioides'' - Colombia, S Venezuela * '' Mandevilla nevadana'' - Magdalena in Colombia * '' Mandevilla novocapitalis'' - C Brazil * '' Mandevilla oaxacana'' - Oaxaca * '' Mandevilla obtusifolia'' - Amazonas in Venezuela * '' Mandevilla pachyphylla'' - Bolívar in Venezuela * '' Mandevilla paisae'' - Antioquia * '' Mandevilla pavonii'' - Colombia to Bolivia * '' Mandevilla pendula'' - SE Brazil * '' Mandevilla pentlandiana'' - Peru, Bolivia, Brazil, N Argentina * '' Mandevilla petraea'' - Paraguay, Uruguay, Bolivia, Brazil, N Argentina * '' Mandevilla pohliana'' - Paraguay, Bolivia, Brazil, N Argentina * '' Mandevilla polyantha'' - Peru * '' Mandevilla pristina'' - Peru * '' Mandevilla pubescens'' - NW Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador * '' Mandevilla puyumato'' - Colombia * '' Mandevilla pycnantha'' - Minas Gerais * '' Mandevilla riparia'' - Peru, Colombia, Ecuador * '' Mandevilla rubra'' - Minas Gerais * '' Mandevilla rugellosa'' - N + C South America * '' Mandevilla rugosa'' - Guyana, Brazil * '' Mandevilla rutila'' - Peru, Bolivia * '' Mandevilla sagittarii'' - Panama, Colombia, Ecuador * '' Mandevilla sancta'' - Bahia * '' Mandevilla sancta-martae'' - Magdalena in Colombia * '' Mandevilla sandemanii'' - Peru * ''

Mandevilla sanderi ''Mandevilla sanderi'', the Brazilian jasmine, is a vine belonging to the genus '' Mandevilla''."Botanica. The Illustrated AZ of over 10000 garden plants and how to cultivate them", p. 563. Könemann, 2004. Grown as an ornamental plant, the spec ...

'' - Rio de Janeiro * '' Mandevilla sandwithii'' - Guyana * '' Mandevilla scaberula'' - N Brazil, Venezuela, Guyana, Fr Guiana * '' Mandevilla scabra'' - tropical South America * '' Mandevilla schlimii'' - Venezuela, Colombia * '' Mandevilla scutifolia'' - Peru * '' Mandevilla sellowii'' - S Brazil * '' Mandevilla semirii'' - Minas Gerais * '' Mandevilla similaris'' - SE Venezuela * '' Mandevilla speciosa'' - N Brazil, Venezuela, Guyana, Colombia * '' Mandevilla spigeliiflora'' - Brazil, Paraguay, Bolivia * '' Mandevilla splendens'' - Rio de Janeiro * '' Mandevilla steyermarkii'' - S Venezuela, SE Colombia * '' Mandevilla subcarnosa'' - N Brazil, Venezuela, Guyana, Colombia * '' Mandevilla subcordata'' - Bolivia * '' Mandevilla subsagittata'' - Mexico to Peru; Cuba, Trinidad * '' Mandevilla subscorpoidea'' - Guatemala, S Mexico * '' Mandevilla subsessilis'' - C Mexico to El Salvador * '' Mandevilla subumbelliflora'' - Peru * '' Mandevilla surinamensis'' - Venezuela, 3 Guianas * '' Mandevilla symphytocarpa'' - Trinidad to Bolivia * '' Mandevilla tenuifolia'' - Suriname, Brazil * '' Mandevilla thevetioides'' - SE Colombia * '' Mandevilla torosa'' - Tamaulipas to Honduras; Cuba, Jamaica * '' Mandevilla trianae'' - Guyana to Peru * '' Mandevilla tricolor'' - Ecuador * '' Mandevilla tristis'' - Táchira * '' Mandevilla tubiflora'' - NW Mexico to Nicaragua * '' Mandevilla turgida'' - S Venezuela * '' Mandevilla ulei'' - NW Brazil * '' Mandevilla undulata'' - Paraguay, Misiones * '' Mandevilla urceolata'' - Rio de Janeiro * '' Mandevilla urophylla'' - SE Brazil * '' Mandevilla vanheurckii'' - Venezuela, Peru, NW Brazil * '' Mandevilla vasquezii'' - Peru * '' Mandevilla velame'' - Brazil * '' Mandevilla venulosa'' - Minas Gerais, São Paulo * '' Mandevilla veraguasensis'' - S Central America, NW South America * '' Mandevilla versicolor'' - Peru, Ecuador * '' Mandevilla villosa'' - Chiapas to S Venezuela * '' Mandevilla virescens'' - S Brazil, Paraguay, NE Argentina * '' Mandevilla widgrenii'' - Brazil, Paraguay * '' Mandevilla xerophytica'' - Boyaca in Colombia

Gallery

Image:Mandevilla cv Best Red1.jpg, Image:PinkMandevilla.jpg, Pink mandevilla grown in Southern Ontario, Canada File:White dipladenia.jpg, White dipladenia at night in Wayanad, India

References

External links

The Clemson University Cooperative Extension ServiceMandevilla Plant Expert Gardening, Q & A
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