My New Vigna caracalla....

Since this plant is grown from seeds bought on ebay i ...i do hope it IS V. caracalla snail vine and not Phaseolus giganteus, which is often also called snail vine... because the former is fragrant while the latter is not.....It is claimed that the plant can be smelled from 15 feet away....but when i had it growing and blooming in my garden...errrmmm think this statement is either a 'hyperbole'...or that it is true for certain geographic locations..of which mine is not a part of! Well....there was some fragrance ...however, my nostrils will need to be a few centimetres near...wokei i should not exaggerate...may be a few inches..... the blooms to be able to smell..!! Errmmm could it be that my sense of smell is not as strong as that of the people who made that claim...?  nah...most probably it is because of soil and geographical location. Anyway, i m thankful that out of the few seeds sent to me this one ...survives...

...and it is finally climbing up the wooden pole i gave it.  Actually 2 out of ..4 or 6? seeds i got from ebay...germinated....but the other one had some time ago succumbed to ...errr 'attacks' from its namesake... aahh snails seem to love it...plus i suppose heat stress....BTW the one i had before this one had also long gone....probably due to heat stress....?  Yeah am very thankful at least this one survives.... have tried many times to make it climb the pole... it simply refused....so i gave up trying.... well i suppose it does not like to be 'pressed and pushed' to climb....wanted to take its own sweet time to do so.... aahh i m relieved now that it has .....so now i wait for it to flower...hopefully like the ones in these pics below...err  these pics are not  of my plant......courtesy of the internet of course!