Looking through my plant photos ( to get some acorns ) and found this beautiful one... taken in St Petersburg, Florida.




Thanks in advance,
RobertB

Believe it's Bauhinia galpinii (synonym Bauhinia punctata) if it's a vine-y shrub or shrubby vine. We call it Red African Orchid Bush in my area but other common names are Nasturtium Bauhinia or Pride of De Kaap.

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Monica
Cool plant...
RobertB

Robert, you need to move some Plumerias over to squeeze this one in - but it takes up some space!

I see a few spots in there!!!

Wow, you're more 9b than I am - love the palms and landscaping. Yep, plenty of room for a few non-Plumeria plants

These trees get smacked hard in the winters sometime... usually once every 7-8 years we get an arctic blast of 32 in the middle of a 72 degree winter week.

Robert B

Oh yeah, they're called "Blue Northers" here - 82 to 52 in about 20 minutes. We had a 20 years of 10a winters, then 2 back to back winters with hard freezes. Some palms were toast and that's when I lost my in-ground Plumeria.

Don't you just hate that!!!!!

Bauhinia galpinii for sure for sure. My favorite plant in the world and I don't own one!

Something must be done about that!

Very tough once established. Heat, drought tolerant. Something of a scrambler, but fairly slow growing so never a nuisance. Brick-colored flowers. (I don't know anything else with blooms this color.) Zone 9-10.