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Adenia heterophylla, the lacewing vine, is a climbing species in the passion-flower family from tropical Asia and northern Australia. It is grown mainly as a tropical climber or caudex specimen, and it needs warmth, bright light and well-drained soil.
Adenia heterophylla, commonly known in Australia as the lacewing vine, is a climbing plant in the family Passifloraceae. It has a broad distribution spanning the equator, from the south eastern corner of China, through Indochina and Malesia, to northern Australia. In Australia it serves as a food plant for larvae of the glasswing, red lacewing and cruiser butterflies.
The lacewing vine grows in a variety of tropical forest types including rainforest, beach forest, monsoon forest and vine thickets. It is native to the following areas: Andaman Islands, Bismarck Archipelago, Borneo, Cambodia, south east China, Hainan, Java, Laos, Lesser Sunda Islands, Maluku Islands, New Guinea, Nicobar Islands, the Northern Territory, Philippines, Queensland, Sulawesi, Sumatera, Taiwan, Thailand, Vietnam and Western Australia.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Adenia heterophylla 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.
