About
Bomarea multiflora is a climbing herbaceous plant that can reach up to 3 meters in length. It features long, narrow leaves and produces clusters of tubular to funnel-shaped flowers from late spring. These flowers, measuring about 4 cm, display a combination of orange and yellow hues, with brown spots on their inner surfaces.
About the genus
Bomarea consists of tuberous, deciduous climbing perennials characterized by simple, lanceolate leaves. The flowers appear in terminal umbels or racemes, featuring tubular or narrowly bell-shaped forms.
Growing conditions
- Sunlight
- Full sun
- Soil type
- Loam, Sand
- Soil pH
- Acid, Alkaline, Neutral
- Soil moisture
- Moist but well-drained
- Aspect
- South-facing, West-facing
- Exposure
- Sheltered
- UK hardiness
- H2
Plant details
- Plant type
- Climber Wall Shrub, Conservatory Greenhouse
- Habit
- Climbing
- Foliage
- Deciduous
- Height
- 1.5-2.5 metres
- Spread
- 0.1-0.5 metres
- Time to full height
- 2-5 years
- Suggested uses
- Sub-tropical
- Native to
- South America
Care notes
- Cultivation
- Grow outdoors in moist but well-drained soil in full sun. Cut back dead growth and flowered stems to ground level in autumn. Under glass grow in peat-free, loam-based compost in full light with shade from hot sun
- Pruning
- No pruning required
- Propagation
- Propagate by seed or division
- Pest resistance
- May be susceptible to glasshouse red spider mite
- Disease resistance
- Generally disease-free