Pithecoctenium cynanchoides Richard Lynch thrives in gravel gardens and

thrives in gravel gardens and coastal plantings

belongs firmly to the second kind

the late flowers feed bees when little else blooms

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

Pithecoctenium cynanchoides Richard Lynch thrives in gravel gardens andPithecoctenium 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,