Oldest Wisteria Vine from Amboise, France

I bet you wouldn’t have seen a wisteria tree as old as this one. At Amboise chateau, I saw this old wisteria vine adding immense beauty to the old walls. A board there mentions it was planted in 1840s. Today, more than one and half centuries old, the trunk has hardened and thickened.

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The flowering plant belonging to the pea family, which usually has a tender stem in its initial years, looked strange in its ‘twisted and bent with age’ form. When we were there, the wall on which it crept and climbed was completely covered with its blooms. The drooping sprays, racemes, measured almost 30 to 40cms. A bench there provided ample photo sessions for tourists. Sharing a couple of shots here.

The generic name Wisteria commemorates the late eighteenth-century, North American anatomist Caspar Wistar. Unfortunately, when he named the genus, Thomas Nuttall misspelled Wistar’s name.

Wisteria can climb up tall trees and continue to grow in the tree canopy where it can shade out smaller trees and plants below. Individual wisteria plants can live for more than 50 years.

Growing 20 to 30 m tall, it is a deciduous vine. It is widely cultivated in temperate regions for its twisting stems and masses of scented flowers. The colors of wisteria flowers range from dark purple, pale pink, true white, and sky blue petals on racemes, and the length can range from six inches to two feet long.

Cost of Wisteria Vine in India is 925 INR per piece.

To grow Wisteria Vine in India, a sunny spot is the pre-requisite. It might survive in partial sunlight but will never show its bloom.

Caution: Although Wisteria is not toxic to humans, it’s dangerous to pets, including dogs, cats, and horses. This climbing flowering plant produces pods and seeds that are toxic to pets.

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