English: Purple Wreath, Purple-wreath, Queen's-wreath, Sandpaper Vine, Sand-paper, Bluebird Vine, Queen's Wreath, Queenswreath (U.S.A.), Tropical Wisteria (U.S.A.), Blue Petrea (Australia), Adolfina (Sri Lanka), Sweet Patria (Philippines), Petrea (Philippines)
Bengali: নীলমনীলতা pronounced 'nilmanilata'
Chinese: ? pronounced 'lan hua teng'
Estonian: Roniv Petrea
French: Liane de la veuve
Hindi: नीलमणि लता pronounced 'nilmani lata'
Mayan: Yoch op Tsimin (Quintana Roo)
Singhala: ? pronounced 'koniya'
Spanish:
---Castellano: Capitán Lila, Lazo de Amor, Lija, Petrea, Corona Púrpura*, Corona de Flores Púrpura*, Corona de la Reina*
---Colombia: Petrea, Corona de Reina, Corona Púrpura
---Costa Rica: Choreque
---Guatemala: Corona de la Reina, Petrea, Nazareno, Cuero de Sapo
---Uruguay: Petrea
---Venezuela: Cenizo
Swedish: Propellerbuske
Tamil: ? pronounced 'kudirai valuppu'
*Although from a blog from Spain, I am quite sure these names were actually lifted off the Colombian website.
André de Groot sent me this photo taken at a hotel in Butembo, in the Goma region of the Democratic Republic of Congo, requesting identification. I I.D.ed it when I realised those lavender flowers are actually the calyxes of unopened flowers, which I then noticed were zygomorphic. This with the other characters made me think of Lamiales, so using 'purple' 'calyx' and the names of likely families I Googled it.
Native Distribution: (from GRIN, Tela Botanica, Flora of Barbados & Smithsonian's Flora of Panama; can't be bothered to double-check everything)
Mexico:
---North: Coahuila, San Luis Potosi, Tamaulipas
---Central: Guerrero, Hidalgo, Mexico, Michoacan, Oaxaca, Puebla, Queretaro, Veracruz
---South: Campeche, Chiapas, Quintana Roo, Tabasco, Yucatan
Belize
Costa Rica
El Salvador
Guatemala: Found naturally between 0-1800m.
Honduras
Nicaragua
Panama: Area del Canal, Chiriquí, Coclé, Darién, Los Santos, Panamá, San Blas, Veraguas
Antigua and Barbuda
Barbados: (not mentioned in GRIN)
Cuba
Dominican Republic
Grenada: (not mentioned in GRIN)
Guadeloupe
Haiti: (not mentioned in GRIN)
Jamaica
Martinique: (not mentioned in GRIN, unclear in Tela Botanica)
Puerto Rico
Santa Lucia: (not mentioned in GRIN)
Trinidad and Tobago: Trinidad
Bolivia: Beni
Brazil
Colombia
Ecuador: Guayas, Morona-Santiago, Napo
French Guiana
Guyana
Paraguay
Peru
Suriname
Venezuela
Unclear: Bahamas, Bermuda
Naturalized/Introduced throughout the tropics: Florida (U.S.A.), India, Sri Lanka, China, Philippines, Malaysia, Réunion, Mauritius, Nigeria, Cameroon, Kenya, Tanzania, Zimbabwe, Malawi, South Africa, possibly in Mozambique.
It was already cultivated in the Netherlands in the 1730's (in the De Hartecamp estate).
