CYDISTA AEQUINOCTIALIS
Garlic Vine

The Garlic Vine is one of the most rewarding, flowering vines that you can grow, unless that you are a vampire. Interestingly enough it smells like garlic. However, it doesn't smell if the plant is left alone, only when the leaves are crushed.
Flowering twice a year you will find it quite often covered with flowers. Flowers start off purple and change to a lighter shade of lavender with age. Eventually fading to almost white. You will see 3 different color of flowers at the same time on the plant.
It can be grown in containers and should be trimmed after the flowers are gone.
Avoid freezing temperatures. 

FAMILY : Bignoniaceae
ORIGIN : Tropical America
SIZE : medium vine 6' - 8'
LIGHT REQUIREMENTS : full to partial sun
WATER REQUIREMENTS : average
MIN. TEMP. : low 30°s
FLOWER : spring and fall
COMMENTS : the leaves smell like garlic