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

Asplundia brunneistigma

Asplundia brunneistigma is a largely terrestrial, sometimes weakly climbing member of the Cyclanth family, native to rainforest in Costa Rica and Panama. It is rarely grown in cultivation, so care details below are general guidance for its group.

Family
Cyclanthaceae (Cyclanth family)
Grows as
Climber
Light
Part shade, Bright indirect
Water
Keep the soil evenly moist and do not let it dry out completely.
Soil
Rich, well-drained, peaty or organic potting mix.
Temperature
18–30 °C; protect below 12 °C
How easy
Moderate
Native range
Costa Rica to Panama
Climate
wet tropical

About

Asplundia brunneistigma is a species of largely terrestrial plant (although sometimes shortly climbing) belonging to the family Cyclanthaceae. It has a long stem up to 2 (exceptionally 3) m long bearing petioles up to 40 cm long terminating in shallowly bifid leaves up to 75 cm long.

This plant is found in primary rainforest habitats from Costa Rica to Panama.

Other Asplundia plants

Asplundia albicarpa · Asplundia allenii · Asplundia cayapensis · Asplundia ceci · Asplundia clementinae · Asplundia cuspidata · Asplundia domingensis · Asplundia fagerlindii · Asplundia helicotricha · Asplundia lilacina · Asplundia lutea · Asplundia meraensis

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Asplundia brunneistigma 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…