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Asplundia lilacina

Asplundia lilacina is a climbing species in the Cyclanthaceae (cyclanth) family, endemic to Ecuador and found in moist montane forest. It is rarely grown outside its native range, so care guidance is inferred from its wet tropical habitat and related cyclanths.

Family
Cyclanthaceae (Cyclanth family)
Grows as
Climber
Light
Part shade, Bright indirect
Water
Keep the root zone consistently moist and never let it dry out completely.
Soil
Rich, humus-heavy, well-draining moist mix.
Temperature
18–28 °C; protect below 12 °C
Native range
Ecuador
Climate
wet tropical

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Asplundia lilacina is a species of plant in the Cyclanthaceae family. It is endemic to Ecuador. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist montane forests.

Other Asplundia plants

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

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Asplundia lilacina 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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