Pithecoctenium cynanchoides Richard Lynch and peeling cinnamon bark

and peeling cinnamon bark

a graceful evergreen that climbs to ten feet or more on slender trunks dressed in smooth

This is a white-flowered form of Rhododendron austrinum (which see)

thrives in gravel gardens and coastal plantings

the late flowers feed bees when little else blooms

Pithecoctenium cynanchoides Richard Lynch and peeling cinnamon barkPithecoctenium cynanchoides, the monkey's comb, is a vigorous, tendril climbing vine of the trumpet creeper family, Bignoniaceae, native to the warm woodlands and thickets of South America. Semi evergreen in mild climates, the vine climbs by many branched tendrils and clothes a support quickly in heart shaped, three parted leaves, the terminal leaflet often turned into a grasping tendril of its own. Through the warm season the vine carries showy,