ID my vine seedling

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Muhammad Arif Khan
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ID my vine seedling

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The seed

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Seedling

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The flower was presented to me before gifting the seed by my ex Mali who wanted to know what it was? From internet I found it matched Combretum Coccineum.
Lahore Nursery promptly provided me the plant.
The seed has germinated and the leaves of seedling are broader than that of the plant sold to me by Lahoria.
Lohore Nursery Combretum

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You be the judge.
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Re: ID my vine seedling

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Unfortunately, the leaf form of Combretum coccineum is quite different even from authentic botanical gardens/ university pages. You can submit your photos to the University of British Columbia's botanical garden for identification by taxonomists (it's a forum like this one). The seed picture might help as this seed does not look what is typical of Combretaceae family. May be I am wrong!

http://www.botanicalgarden.ubc.ca/forums/

See the variations in leaf morphology for example for the same species:

http://www.botany.hawaii.edu/faculty/carr/combret.htm- It's seed does not resemble yours at all. [More trustworthy website]

http://davesgarden.com/guides/pf/showimage/105907/ [amateurs]
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Re: ID my vine seedling

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To me it appears as Combretum constrictum
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Re: ID my vine seedling

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The flower bunch was not round.it was exectly like that of,
Combretum coccineum
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