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Sierra Madre Wisteria or The Wistaria Vine is a flowering Wisteria vine shown at the annual Wistaria Festival in Sierra Madre, California. The Wistaria Vine in 1990 was declared by the Guinness Book of World Records to be the largest blossoming plant in the world. The Wistaria vine is named after physician Caspar Wistar (1761–1818) by ...
They can climb as high as 20 m (66 ft) above the ground and spread out 10 m (33 ft) laterally. The world's largest known wisteria is the Sierra Madre Wisteria in Sierra Madre, California, measuring more than 1 acre (0.40 ha) in size and weighing 250 tons. Planted in 1894, it is of the 'Chinese lavender' variety.
Chinese Wisteria (Wisteria sinensis [16]) (Papilionaceae). Native to China. This one in Sierra Madre, California. About 500 feet (about 150 meters). [17] [18] [19] Largest Wisteria in the world. Weighs about 22 tons. Trunk about three feet (0.91 meters) thick.
Wisteria sinensis and its variety albiflora (at the left) by A.J. Wendel, 1868. Wisteria sinensis, commonly known as the Chinese wisteria, is a species of flowering plant in the pea family, native to China, in the provinces of Guangxi, Guizhou, Hebei, Henan, Hubei, Shaanxi, and Yunnan. Growing 20–30 m (66–98 ft) tall, it is a deciduous vine ...
Sierra Madre is known as "Wisteria City", and its city seal is decorated with a drawing of the now widely known 500-foot (150 m) vine. [6] It is also called the "Village of the Foothills" and was an All-America City in 2007. [7]
Sierra Madre Villa station; Sierra Madre Wistaria; W. Benjamin Davis Wilson This page was last edited on 23 June 2017, at 21:34 (UTC). Text ...
Yucca brevifolia in Joshua Tree National Park Eschscholzia californica in the Antelope Valley Fouquieria splendens in Tucson in winter Young Larrea tridentata. The Madrean region (named after the Sierra Madre Occidental) is a floristic region within the Holarctic kingdom in North America, as delineated by Armen Takhtajan and Robert F. Thorne.
The Sierra Madre Fault Zone highlighted in red. Situated at the boundary to the San Gabriel Valley and San Fernando Valley, the Sierra Madre Fault Zone (also known as the Sierra Madre-Cucamonga Fault) runs along the southern edge of the San Gabriel Mountains for a total of 95 kilometers (59 mi), where the northwesternmost 19 km (12 mi) comprises the San Fernando Fault (the section responsible ...