title: Aristolochia paecilantha
text: # Aristolochia paecilantha
  
  Aristolochia delavayi, known as the party-colored birthwort, is a species of flowering plant in the family Aristolochiaceae.
  
  ## Description
  
  Perennial. Stems striate, prostrate or ascending. Leaves petiolate, broadly cordate at base; limb triangular. Flowers reaching up to 10 cm long; peduncle bending towards the two-thirds. Ovary striate. pubescent. Tube recurved. Strip very dilated, with two cordate and very developed auricles. Outer. part greenish or reddish, puberulent. Inner part glabrous; background brightmyellow overcharged with blackish purple spots.
  
  ## Flowering
  
  The plant flowers in April–May.
  
  ## Habitat
  
  More or less rocky places, rather shady.
  
  ## Distribution
  
  Lower and middle mountains, Hermon.
  
  ## Geographic area
  
  It is endemic to Syria, Lebanon and Palestine.
  
  The spots on the bright yellow background of the large flowers of this birthwort are at the origin of its specific name which comes from the Greek poikilos, spotted, and anthos, flower.
  
  