Jalap Plant

Jalap Plant (Exogonium) - A graceful perennial trailing plant, none more beautiful among climbing plants than E. purga, and of its hardiness there can be little doubt. It has lived for years at Bitton, Gloucestershire, without any protection, and each year it has flowered well. It has grown well at Kew, Fulham, and in the Edinburgh Botanic Gardens. If not checked by late spring frosts at Bitton, it comes into blossom early in September, and continues to flower till cut down by frost. It has roundish tubers of variable size, those of mature growth being about as large as an orange and of a dark color. These are the true Jalap tubers. The plant gets its name from Xalapa, in Mexico, its native region, and is increased by division of tubers.