IBERVILLEA LINDHEIMERI

This member of the Cucurbitaceae family was given this name by Edward Lee Greene in 1895. It is found in Mexico and south-western U.S.A., growing in bushland with a well drained soil with some water and some sun. The caudex can grow up to 40 centimetres in diameter, the vines will reach three meters. The flowers are yellow and greenish.

The genera name after Pierre LeMoyne Sieur D'Iberville, 17th century explorer and settler in America. The species is named after the Ferdinand Jacob Lindheimer, 1801-1879, a prominent Texan botanist in the nineteenth century. Ibervillea is dioecious, there are separate male and female plants.