Campsis × tagliabuana (Madame Galen) is a mid-19th-century hybrid between Campsis radicans (American trumpet vine) and Campsis grandiflora (Chinese trumpet vine). It produces trumpet-shaped, orange to red flowers up to long that appear in loose clusters of 6 to 12. It is a woody, clinging, perennial vine that attaches itself to structures and climbs vigorously with aerial roots like those of ivy. It bears dark-green deciduous leaves, long. Its flowers are very attractive to bees, butterflies and birds. Like its parents it is hardy but in cooler temperate regions requires the shelter of a sunny wall to produce its spectacular flowers in abundance.
The Latin specific epithet tagliabuana commemorates the 19th-century Italian nurserymen, Alberto Linneo and Carlo Ausonio Tagliabue.Visiani, Roberto de. Recensio altera plantarum minus cognitarum quas Hortus Patavinus colit. in: Atti del Reale Istituto veneto di scienze, lettere ed arti. ser. 3. vol. 4. page 135. 1858-1859.
It has gained the Royal Horticultural Society's Award of Garden Merit.
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External links NC State University, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences page for Campsis x tagliabuana