trumpet creeper (trumpetkre"per)

A woody climbing vine, Tecoma radicans, native in the south of the United States, and cultivated elsewhere for ornament. It bears pinnate leaves with nine or eleven-toothed leaflets, and flowers with a tubular funnelform corolla approaching 3 inches in length. It is quite hardy and a vigorous grower, climbing high trees, or covering walls, by means of aërial rootlets. It is at its best in alluvial soils southward. More often, but le Specifically called trumpet-power, sometimes trumpet -vine and trumpet -ash. See cut under Big non i aceæ.