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Known for its showy flowers, the genus Mandevilla includes plants that were formerly called Dipladenia. There are about 100 species of this tropical American woody vine. Most species overwinter only in the tropical South.
called hybrid plants. They came from true-breeding parent plants with different forms of the same trait. When Mendel cross-pollinated two purple-flowering hybrid plants, some of the offspring had white flowers. The trait that had disappeared in the first-generation always reappeared in the second-generation.