Wisteria Creeper in Landour

From the archive record

Wisteria creeper at Landour Villa, Landour, Mussoorie. This creeper was planted by Daniel Taylor's grandfather when they came to India from the US! Wisteria is a genus of flowering plants in the pea family, Fabaceae, that includes ten species of woody climbing vines. Aquarists refer to the species Hygrophila difformis, in the family Acanthaceae, as Water Wisteria. Wisteria vines climb by twining their stems either clockwise or counter-clockwise round any available support. They can climb as high as 20 m above ground and spread out 10 m laterally. This footage is part of the professionally-shot stock footage archive of Wilderness Films India Ltd., the largest collection of imagery from South Asia. The Wilderness Films India collection comprises of thousands of hours of high quality broadcas