Re: a hard one

Does anyone know what this vine is?

 

NOTE this post was moved from another thread.

It might be a Clitoria sp.

 

it looks close but I think its different:

http://toptropicals.com/catalog/uid/Clitoria_sp.htm

http://www.flickr.com/photos/30743267@N06/2904792478/

 

Looks like Clitoria mariana

 

the flower looke exactley like it but the leaf doesent. ?

so the clsest one so far is Spurred Butterfly Pea (Centrosema virginianum), I think thats the answer.

 

I'll stick with Clitoria mariana. Flower characteristics win out over leaves. Your plant looks like it has a tubular calyx. The calyx on C. virginianum is not tubular.
Compare the two... Clitoria mariana and Centrosema virginianum

 

Clitoria at last link posted does look just like it, including the leaves. I assumed it was that plant when I first saw the pictures of the specimen in question. The flowers of Clitoria seem almost uniquely gynecological in appearance, the genus name being entirely apt - if perhaps a bit racy.

Some scientific names for birds are of even more questionable seriousness.

 

Supposedly Linnaeus, who knew it grew in Virginia, named it with the Virgin Queen in mind.

 

You must be referring to "virginianum" rather than Clitoria.

 

The species virginianum was in the genus Clitoria until 1837.

 

Ime a bit confused but ime going with Clitoria mariana L. but if it helps heres a seed pod and some seeds, the seeds are stickey like glue.

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Clitoria ternatea? I think.