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Ceropegia jainii

Ceropegia jainii
Photo: Jayesh Patil, CC BY 2.0

Ceropegia jainii is a rare, endangered tuberous succulent from the Western Ghats of India, with only a few hundred plants known in the wild. It is grown mainly by specialists, and is hard to keep outside its native habitat.

Family
Apocynaceae (Dogbane family)
Grows as
Bulb
Light
Full sun
Water
Water sparingly during the growing season and keep dry while dormant.
Soil
Very free-draining sandy or gritty mix with some organic matter.
Temperature
Warm conditions suited to a seasonally dry tropical climate; protect from frost.
How easy
Hard
Native range
India (Maharashtra, Karnataka)
Climate
seasonally dry tropical

About

Ceropegia jainii is a species of flowering plant in the family Apocynaceae. It is an endangered species found only in western India.

Where it grows

Ceropegia jainii is a rare plant found in the Indian subcontinent. The specific conditions it requires to grow both limit its natural distribution and make propagation difficult outside of the wild, though there has been some success at developing in vitro cultivation techniques.

Other Ceropegia plants

Apteranthes burchardii · Apteranthes europaea · Apteranthes tuberculata · Australluma peschii · Boucerosia frerei · Ceropegia schinziata · Brachystelma tumakurense · Caralluma adscendens · Caralluma crenulata · Apteranthes munbyana · Caudanthera edulis · Ceropegia ampliata

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Ceropegia jainii 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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