The flowers have six purple petals that are yellow at the base, giving the centre its distinctive yellow colour. This rampant vine will overgrow everything. Bluebell, as it is known, blooms all year throughout the Island. An evergreen shrub, native of the Orient, introduced in 1790. It makes excellent hedges and has clusters of flowers year round, most abundantly in spring and summer.
Pink flowers are typical, but there are also whites and reds.
In the late 1800s lily bulbs were an important export, but disease halted trade in 1899. A field of these succulent trumpet- shaped white lilies is a glorious sight. This is a strong growing climbing vine with spiny stems and round leaves, frequently covering dead trees and fences. It is a native of Brazil, and you'll see one variety or another in bloom at most times of the year. The coiling tendrils are seen as whips.