Thunbergia laurifolia Lindl.
Blue Trumpet Vine, Laurel clockvine, Laurel-Leaved Thunbergia, Blue trumpet vine, Laurel-leaved thunbergia, babbler's-vine
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Summary
Thunbergia laurifolia, the laurel clockvine or blue trumpet vine, is native to India and Thailand and the Indomalayan realm, the species occurs from Indochina to Malaysia.
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About the genus · Thunbergia
Thunbergia is a genus of flowering plants in the family Acanthaceae. It includes 150 species native to tropical and subtropical regions of sub-Saharan Africa, Madagascar, southern Asia, New Guinea, and Australia. Thunbergia species are vigorous annual or perennial vines and shrubs growing to 2–8 m tall. More on Wikipedia ›
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At a glance
Also known as Thunbergia grandiflora var. lauriflora (Lindl.) Benoist; Thunbergia grandiflora var. laurifolia (Lindl.) Benoist; Thunbergia harrisii Hook.fil.
Cultivation
Its year Rain rule: a sharp rainy season, May and July to October at the habitat (not shifted); the temperature curve is flat (3.5 °C of range), so no growing season is inferred.
This species’ habitat figures, and what two fixed rules read from them.
The rain rule reads a sharp season: 70% of the year's rain (1044 mm of 1472 mm) falls in May and July to October. The temperature curve is flat, 3.5 °C between the warmest and coldest month, so the growing-season rule does not infer a growing season from it. Months are the habitat's, northern hemisphere; with a flat temperature curve there is no season to reverse, so they are not shifted for a collection elsewhere.
Read from the median year of CHELSA monthly rainfall and mean temperature across the envelope cells: the rain rule takes the smallest set of months carrying 70% of the rain and calls it winter when its mean is more than half a degree below the year's, summer when more than that above, and neither in between; the temperature rule, used only under 120 mm, names the cooler six months when they are at least a degree cooler than the other six. Months are shifted for the other hemisphere only where the temperature curve gives a season to reverse. A reading of the curves, not an observation of the plant.
Rain Habitat rain 1472 mm a year, wettest September at 248 mm, driest January at 13 mm (habitat calendar, northern hemisphere).
This species’ habitat figures, with their source.
1472 mm a year at the habitat, 1044 mm of it May and July to October. Wettest month September at 248 mm, driest January at 13 mm. Across the envelope cells the year's total runs 1093 mm to 2896 mm (10th to 90th percentile of each cell's own year) (median year across the envelope cells, CHELSA; habitat calendar, northern hemisphere).
CHELSA monthly precipitation, median year across the envelope cells. The rain that falls where the species is recorded; nothing about how the plant takes water.
Light Open sky over the habitat: 29 to 39 mol/m²/day.
This species’ habitat figures, with their source.
Open sky over the habitat: 29 to 39 mol/m²/day across the year (daily light integral, median year across the envelope cells, CHELSA; the lowest 10th-percentile month across the cells is 22, the highest 90th-percentile month 42).
CHELSA shortwave radiation at each envelope cell, a daily-mean flux taken to a daily total and converted at 2.07 mol of PAR per MJ. The sky over the habitat, measured; what reaches a plant under a rock, a shrub or a shade cloth is not.
Warmth and air Cold floor 13.5 °C (1st-percentile habitat night, NASA POWER).
This species’ habitat figures, with their source.
Coldest: the 1st-percentile night over 44 years at the typical cell is 13.5 °C, the absolute minimum 6.9 °C, no frost in 44 years (NASA POWER daily minima). Warmest: the 99th-percentile day is 39.1 °C. Monthly means: coldest night 18.7 °C in December (across the envelope cells 12.4 °C to 24.3 °C), warmest day 32.3 °C in April (median year across the envelope cells, CHELSA). Cold floor: 13.5 °C, which is the 1st-percentile night over 44 years at the typical cell (NASA POWER).
NASA POWER daily minima and maxima 1981–2024 at the typical cell, lapse-corrected to its elevation; CHELSA monthly means, median year across the envelope cells, CHELSA. The cold floor is the figure named in its sentence. Not a measured survival limit for any plant in a pot.
Relative humidity at the habitat: 57 to 67% across the year (monthly means, median year across the envelope cells, CHELSA). A figure about the air, saying nothing about how the plant takes water.
CHELSA relative humidity, median year across the envelope cells.
The figures the cards read from are in Climate below, and where they came from in Natural habitat.
Climate across the habitat
Figures by month
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Day °C | 28 / 24–31 | 30 / 27–33 | 32 / 28–35 | 32 / 29–36 | 31 / 28–33 | 30 / 27–32 | 29 / 26–32 | 29 / 26–32 | 29 / 26–31 | 29 / 25–30 | 28 / 24–30 | 28 / 23–30 |
| Night °C | 19 / 12–24 | 20 / 14–25 | 22 / 17–25 | 24 / 19–26 | 24 / 20–26 | 24 / 20–26 | 23 / 20–26 | 23 / 20–26 | 23 / 20–25 | 22 / 18–25 | 21 / 16–25 | 19 / 12–24 |
| Rain mm | 13 / 4–219 | 19 / 9–146 | 49 / 18–223 | 103 / 55–289 | 208 / 156–286 | 161 / 123–328 | 180 / 140–397 | 209 / 168–431 | 248 / 188–380 | 199 / 116–320 | 68 / 34–333 | 15 / 6–312 |
| DLI | 33 / 30–34 | 36 / 35–38 | 39 / 35–42 | 39 / 34–41 | 34 / 31–36 | 31 / 24–34 | 31 / 23–33 | 29 / 22–34 | 29 / 25–34 | 29 / 27–33 | 29 / 27–31 | 30 / 27–32 |
| RH % | 57 / 54–66 | 57 / 50–65 | 58 / 48–66 | 60 / 51–67 | 65 / 60–68 | 65 / 62–72 | 65 / 62–72 | 67 / 62–73 | 67 / 64–72 | 66 / 63–70 | 63 / 57–68 | 59 / 53–67 |
Each figure is the median across the 140 grid cells holding the 227 in-range records, with the 10th–90th percentile span across those cells after the slash where it differs. Extremes and elevation were read at the typical cell 1513:5579 (14.325, 98.975). Over 44 years there: absolute minimum 6.9 °C, 1st-percentile night 13.5 °C, 99th-percentile day 39.1 °C. Normals: CHELSA V2.1 1981–2010 climatology, 0.05° cells (each the mean of ~36 1 km pixels). Envelope: median and 10th–90th percentile of each month across the 140 distinct grid cells holding the 227 in-range records; extremes and elevation at the typical cell 1513:5579 (its coldest month's mean night nearest the median across cells); its position is the cell centre. Extremes: NASA POWER (MERRA-2) daily 1981–2024, cell 14.50_98.750, lapse-corrected -173 m at 6.5 °C/km. Elevation: ETOPO 2022, 263 m (cell mean).
Natural habitat
Photographs
Photographs: no rights reserved · CC0 (2); (c) Afanasovich Alexey, some rights reserved (CC BY) (2); (c) Steven Bodzin, some rights reserved (CC BY) (2); (c) Eugene Popov, some rights reserved (CC BY) (2).
Photographs: iNaturalist did not answer when this page was built; what is shown came from the sources that did.
Papers naming this species
Works whose title or abstract names Thunbergia laurifolia, most cited first, from OpenAlex (CC0). A mention, not a cultivation source: nothing on this page is drawn from them.
Related
Similar habitat climate the 6 species whose habitat climate is nearest this one's: mean day and night, month by month, and rain on a log scale, in calendar order, so a habitat with the same seasons six months out is far, not near. Nothing else counts: not range, not family.
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