LOCATION: University of Manchester campus
Vinca is a herbaceous or a subshrub plant and is divided into Vinca major and Vinca minor which are both cultivated as an ornamental flowering evergreen. The flowers consist of five delicate purple-white petals with brighter colours in the center. The leaves are opposite and simple, quite broad and oval with a glossy green surface.
The low growing shrub reaches from 0.10m - 0.50m and it lives in small clumps. The plant is native to Europe, southeast Asia and northwest Africa but it is also widely used in British gardens.
This specific plant was found on UoM campus in an early winter when it had few flowers left. It was growing in a bark mulch and was covered by dried leaves from the trees surrounding it. There was also quite a lot of litter tangled in the plant's stems which suggests that it has not been taken care of for a while.
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