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Breynia disticha
Also called Foliage Flower, Ice Cream Bush, Leaf Flower, Snow On The Mountain, Sweetpea Bush
In Singapore: Snow Bush, Hawaiian Snowbush, Snow-on-the-Mountain, Sweetpea Bush, Ice Cream Bush, Foliage Flower, Red-Leaf Breynia, Leaf Flower (Grown in Singapore)
Snowbush is a small shrub with variegated white and green leaves that is widely grown as an ornamental. It does best in bright light with fairly moist, well-drained soil and warm conditions.
Breynia disticha, commonly known as the snowbush, is a plant in the family Phyllanthaceae, first described in 1776. It is native to New Caledonia and Vanuatu in the western Pacific, but naturalized on a wide assortment of other islands around the world (West Indies, São Tomé, Seychelles, Chagos Islands, Bonin Islands, Norfolk Island, Fiji, Line Islands, Society Islands, Hawaii, etc.), as well as in the U.S. state of Florida.
Breynia disticha presumably is pollinated by leafflower moths (Epicephala spp.) in its native range, like other species of plants in the genus Breynia. Leafflower moths have been reared from fruit of this species in New Caledonia.
[Contains information from Leaf Area Index (LAI) and Heritage Trees from data.gov.sg (National Parks Board), made available under the terms of the Singapore Open Data Licence version 1.0]
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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.
