Gallon Plant from Combretum rotundifolium or the monkey brush or monkey brush vine, is a plant species in the genus Combretum found in South America. The bright yellow/red flowers are the decoration of the interior where the color green is in abundance. When in blossom the flower buds will slowly burst open giving this exotic vine its monkey brush appearance. Combretum rotundifolium is an unarmed, sarmentose shrub, evergreen, tall up to about 6 m with opposite coriaceous leaves almost without petiole, roundish or elliptic, 8-16 cm long and 6-12 cm broad, mucronate initially of bronze colour, then bright green. Our vine comes back every year here in zone 8b. Hardiness zones 8-11.