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My Flame Vine is finally blooming, at least in spots. In the past it covered my back wall and bloomed in January, like everything is different this year! But even with fewer flowers and later, it is still one of my favorites! 🙂 “Flame Vine” is the most common English name, while in Costa Rica Spanish, it is called “Triquitraque” and the scientific name is “Pyrostegia venusta.” 🙂
¡Pura Vida!
This Triquitraque or Flame Vine on my back wall usually blooms two months: January-February and that’s it! This January it did not have as many blooms, so I gave it a little plant food and started watering it more when wow! it started growing new vines and blooming much more than in January, so now I’m getting a “2nd Life” of it this year for hopefully all of March-April! 🙂 With more blooms! 🙂
And some other views . . .
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Also called in Spanish: Tango, chiltote, chorro de oro, and San Carlos.
In English, most commonly called the Flame Vine
As in the clatter of a train going down the track
As in a string of firecrackers popping
As in jumping jack
OR
The first definition of triquitraque in the dictionary of the real academy of the Spanish language is noise as of repeated and disordered blows. Another meaning of triquitraque in the dictionary is those same hits.
I wish someone would tell me! Maybe the scattered bright flowers along a vine reminds someone of a string of firecrackers exploding? Or a visual clatter? Please comment if you know! 🙂
¡Pura Vida!