Rosy milkweed vine

Common Name : Rosy milkweed vine Botanical Name : Oxystelma esculentum Family : Apocynaceae [Milkweed family]

Kingdom – Plantae

Order - Gentianales

Genus - Oxystelma

Sub family - Asclepiadaceae

Category - Climbing vine/Creeper

Type / Life cycle - Perennial

Found in - River banks, forest margins

Flowers - Small, cup shaped, white with pinkish purple veined, hairy, drooping, 5 petals, 5 erect lobes centric

Flowering season - Frost, july to jan

Foliage & Plant - Green, simple narrow leaves, branched hairy twinning stems

Oxystelma esculentum

Rosy milkweed vine-White with purple veined flowers with 5 erect lobes

Rosy milkweed vine-Fully covered river bank

Rosy milkweed vine flowers with hairy margins

Rosy milkweed vine flowers and foliage

Rosy milkweed vine flower buds

Rosy milkweed vine flower

Photographs: Guna Selvi Camera: Nikon D40x Location : Cauvery river, Srirangam, Trichy, Tamil Nadu, India