Podranea brycei (N. E. Br. ) Sprague (Bignoniaceae) Zimbabwe Creeper or Queen of Sheba. A climber with long slender stems, pinnate leaves and hanging bunches of pale pink flowers with a lined throat, native of Zimbabwe and Malawi, growing on rocky hills and kopjes, flowering mainly from autumn–spring. Stems to 5m. Leaves with 7–9 lanceolate leaflets, to 4cm long, deciduous in cold weather. Calyx with acuminate lobes. Flowers 8cm across, the throat hairy inside. The very similar and commoner P. ricasoliana differs in the broader, shorter calyx lobes, the narrowed base to the corolla tube, which has a glabrous throat. Min. -3°C.
Cultivation Easily grown in any soil against a sunny wall. Keep cool and dry in winter, wet in summer, for good flowers.
Height to 9m (30ft). USZ 10–11, surviving -1°C (30°F) of overnight frost. Best with summer water.