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.
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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Love these flowers too. They're so gorgeous!
Ah, a grand old tree and some very young and pretty flowers.
That's a nice name for those lovely flowers. Now I know where the famous Wisteria Lane got its name from. 🙂
Awe…beautiful! Lavender is my fave color:))
Beauty,, the name, the color, the flower.
Lovely!
Wow! Such an historic plant!
Awesome! Splendid!
Thank you Indrani:)
I have seen wisteria flowers and they are sooo pretty.
The wisteria is gorgeous.
A beauty to be sure. They do tend to take over!
Wonderful! I love these flowers.
Oh my! It is gorgeous!
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SueAnn
Imagine the stories the tree could tell 🙂
That plant is extremely awesome, i can't imagine that wisteria lives that long. My first time to see it was in Svalov, Sweden and it is old too although not comparable to that, but it is creeping on the wall of a big building with lots of flowers too. We actually had our group photo in front of it. If only it is not invasive here in the tropics, i will definitely have it for life!
The trunk on that vine is incredible!! How did you tear yourself away! I would still be there, photographing it!!!
Thank you for sharing these lovely photos Indrani. Wisteria has a lovely scent and one I look forward to the next time they bloom.
This is so beautiful.
Thanks for sharing.
(I like your blog name, and I like your blog!)
This is very beautiful! No matter age.
lovely pictures
Looks good, bright and attractive…
love those weeping flowers. they are special
wow, this is amazing! an old wisteria still blooming and from a stone wall, too. gorgeous!
Awesome indeed!! And what terrific captures, Indrani!! We should all bloom so beautifully at that age!! Wonderful!
how awesome! to know it is that old and still blooming so beautifully…