Cobaea

Family Polemoniaceae. Name: named after the Spanish Jesuit and naturalist Barnabas Cobo, who lived for many years in Mexico and Peru.

Description: The genus includes 9 species distributed in tropical America. Perennial climbing or clinging subshrubs. Stems up to 6 m long. Leaves compound, arranged opposite, each of three pairs of leaflets. Flowers large, bell-shaped, very ornamental, solitary or 2-3 in the axils of the leaves, in buds greenish, then purple or white in some cultivars. Fruit - a leathery capsule. Up to 15 seeds per 1 g.