Drunken sailor scrambles over the Jackfruit tree

Rangoon Creeper or Drunken Sailor (Quisqualis indica)
It is trained to creep over the Jackfruit tree.
Zone C

The Drunken Sailor or sometimes called the 'Rangoon Creeper' (Quisqualis indica) is seen in the pictures above trained to scramble the Jackfruit tree.  The variety planted here is the single flower form, which is a very robust climber. I normally propagate it from its root suckers that arise from the base of mature plants.

Training the Drunken Sailor

The Drunken Sailor (Quisqualis indica) climbing the Nangka tree (Jackfruit) - Artocarpus heterophyllus

 It took about two years to see the Drunken Sailor finally having a good grip at the Jackfruit tree.  One of the concept of the Kambatik garden is to train climbers to creep trees.  By doing so they provide colours as well as attractive to birds.  The flowers are fragrant and produced in large bunches.  One interesting feature is the unusually elongated calyx tube which could be mistaken for  a flower stalk.  Though it can be propagated by cuttings, I find the more successful way is to use the root suckers.  The flowers and leaves are often perforated by beetles and grasshoppers.

Pick of the park - Quisqualis indica

Drunken salior (Quisqualis indica)
Family : Combretaceae - Combretum family