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Camptocarpus acuminatus is a woody climbing species in the dogbane family, endemic to northern and east-central Madagascar. Sources give no cultivation details, so this entry relies on general knowledge of related Camptocarpus and Apocynaceae climbers and should be treated as provisional.
Camptocarpus acuminatus is a species of plant in the Apocynaceae family. It is endemic to
the Madagascar. Pierre Choux, the botanist who first formally described the species, named it after the tapering (acuminatus in Latin) tips of its leaves, using the synonymous name Tanulepis acuminata.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Camptocarpus acuminatus 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.
