Mandevilla villosa

Native from southeastern Mexico through Central America to Venezuela, this climbing plant grows through surrounding vegetation in wet tropical habitats. It has milky sap and trumpet-shaped flowers with yellow to yellow-orange lobes and reddish throats and bases. Its developing seed pods are pale green. In Costa Rica, it has been found from lowland forest to mountain habitats between about 330 and 3,280 feet. Photographed in Panama.