Plant Wiki

The open plant encyclopedia

Know any plant.
Grow it well.

Snap a photo or search by any name to see how to care for it, where it comes from, whether it's safe, and a 3D model you can turn.

  • 13,000+plants with full pages
  • 365,000+plant species worldwide
  • 220+countries covered

Common in

See all

The plants people record most in your country, and ones that grow there wild.

What do you want to do?

Popular plants

Browse all plants

See them in 3D

All plants in 3D

Browse plants

Filter by what you want to do, shape, origin, country, care and safety.

Plant Wiki › Browse plants

Acrosynanthus ovatus

Acrosynanthus ovatus
Photo: Karin dos Santos, CC BY 4.0

Acrosynanthus ovatus is a small shrub from the coffee family, native to the wet tropical forests of eastern Cuba. It is a rare wild species with little horticultural history, so care advice is extrapolated from related tropical Rubiaceae shrubs.

Family
Rubiaceae (Coffee family)
Grows as
Shrub
Light
Bright indirect, Part shade
Water
Keep the soil evenly moist during growth and let the top layer dry slightly between waterings.
Soil
Well-drained, humus-rich potting mix with added perlite or bark.
Temperature
18–28 °C; protect below 10 °C
How easy
Moderate
Native range
E. Cuba
Climate
wet tropical

About

Acrosynanthus ovatus is a species of flowering plant in the family Rubiaceae. It is a shrub native to eastern Cuba.

The species was named by Ignatz Urban in 1923.

Where it grows

Acrosynanthus ovatus is native to the wet tropical biome of eastern Cuba.

Other Acrosynanthus plants

Acrosynanthus jamaicensis · Acrosynanthus latifolius · Acrosynanthus minor · Acrosynanthus parvifolius · Acrosynanthus revolutus · Acrosynanthus trachyphyllus · Acrosynanthus

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Acrosynanthus ovatus by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.

The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.

Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.

Credits & terms

Identify a plant

Point at a leaf or flower and snap. One plant in frame works best.

Your photo
Starting camera…