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Bignonia potosina is a woody, high-climbing liana of tropical wet and seasonally dry forests from Mexico through Central America to northern Costa Rica. It is a wild forest vine rarely grown in gardens, so care notes are general guidance for a warm, bright climber.
Bignonia potosina is a species of liana growing mainly in tropical wet and seasonally dry forests in Mexico and Central America. It belongs to the family Bignoniaceae.
In southern Mexico, Bignonia potosina occurs in the southernmost part of the state of Tamaulipas, the states of San Luis Potosí, Puebla and Oaxaca, and the Yucatan Peninsula, southward through Central America into northern Costa Rica.
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Bignonia potosina 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.
