Rhabdadenia biflora

#518 They called me Rhabdadenia biflora, also known as Echites billbergii, Dipladenia billbergii, Echites ehrenbergii, Rhabdadenia ehrenbergii, and Echites bilbergii. I pay homage to the male botanists Gustaf Johan Billberg, Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg, and Bilberg (I couldn’t find his records). They first catalogued me in 1860.

Native to Bahamas, Belize, Brazil North, Brazil Northeast, Cayman Is., Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Florida, French Guiana, Guatemala, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Jamaica, Leeward Is., Mexico Gulf, Mexico Southeast, Nicaragua, Panamá, Puerto Rico, Suriname, Trinidad-Tobago, Venezuela, and Windward Is..