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Adenia stylosa is a caudiciform climber from northern Madagascar that stores water in a swollen, wrinkled caudex and sends out thin, twining stems. Grow it bone dry for most of the year in bright, free-draining conditions, watering only during the growing season.
Adenia stylosa is a species of flowering plant of the Passifloraceae family endemic to Madagascar.
In Ankarana National Park, Madagascar, it occurs in dry forests on limestone soils.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Adenia stylosa 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.
