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Ipomoea quamoclit
Beautiful little red flower blooming on a fern-like vine growing up a tree. It is called the Cardinal Climber or Cypress Vine and even Hummingbird Vine since it is popular with Hummingbirds. Family Convolvulaceae.
Lacandon Jungle, Las Guacamayas Eco-Lodge, Lacantun River, Chiapas.
Ipomea vines are lovely and they are coming up with newer versions which I think could be hybridized or genetically modified.
i saw this one at the same spot.
http://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/569...
Looks like another sub species of Ipomea.Saw this in Heather farms flower and bee garden.
Thank you Hema. Yours is beautiful with much more substantial leaves. A hybrid maybe?
I saw a similar ipomea species with different leaves,
http://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/385...