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Intermediate Periwinkle, Vinca difformis
Photographs: Bantry, Co. Cork

Intermediate Periwinkle
Vinca difformis
Family: Apocynaceae

Flowering: November-February. Evergreen perennial. Introduced.

Pale blue or sometimes pale lilac-mauve flowers with 5 petals and hairless calyx lobes. The evergreen leaves are lanceolate-obvate, opposite and entire with hairless leaf margins. Stems can be ascending/arching or procumbent, to 2m. Similar to Lesser Periwinkle but larger and stronger

An occasional garden escape or relic of cultivation on well drained sunny or shady ground on roadsides, banks and in woodland.

Similar: Greater Periwinkle has darker flowers, leaf edges with tiny hairs

Intermediate Periwinkle, Vinca difformis

Intermediate Periwinkle, Vinca difformis
Intermediate Periwinkle, Vinca difformis

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