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Asclepias breviantherae is a perennial milkweed from seasonally dry woodland in southwest Tanzania and northern Malawi, with two subspecies. It is a wild species rarely grown in gardens, so care advice here is general milkweed knowledge and should be checked against local conditions.
Asclepias breviantherae is a species of perennial milkweed endemic to southwest Tanzania to northern Malawi. It has two subspecies, Asclepias breviantherae breviantherae and Asclepias breviantherae minor. It grows in the seasonally dry tropical biome. It is in the family Apocynaceae.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Asclepias breviantherae 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.
