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Utah Swallow Wort

Araujia odorata

Utah Swallow Wort
Photo: Cody H., CC BY 2.0

Utah Swallow Wort (Araujia odorata) is a fast-growing evergreen climbing vine from subtropical South America, grown for its fragrant white flowers and as a warm-climate ornamental. It is easy to grow in full sun with reasonable drainage and some protection from frost.

Family
Apocynaceae (Dogbane family)
Grows as
Climber
Light
Full sun
Water
Water regularly during the growing season and let the top few centimetres of soil dry out between waterings.
Soil
Well-drained, fertile garden soil or a loam-based potting mix.
Temperature
15–30 °C; protect below about 5 °C.
How easy
Easy
Native range
Bolivia to WC. & S. Brazil and N. Argentina
Climate
subtropical

About

Araujia odorata, formerly known as Morrenia odorata, the latexplant or strangler vine, is a plant in the family Apocynaceae, which is native to South America (Brazil, Bolivia, Argentina, Paraguay, Uruguay). This plant is cited in Flora Brasiliensis by Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius. The species is widely cultivated as an ornamental.

homonym

Other Araujia plants

White bladderflower

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Araujia odorata 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.

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