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Ceropegia rhynchantha

Ceropegia rhynchantha
Photo: Marco Schmidt, CC BY-SA 2.5

Ceropegia rhynchantha is a climbing subshrub from seasonally dry tropical West Africa, grown mainly by collectors for its slender, lantern-like flowers. Give it a bright spot, let it dry out between waterings, and treat it as a rare succulent-type climber.

Family
Apocynaceae (Dogbane family)
Grows as
Shrub, Climber
Light
Bright indirect, Full sun
Water
Water sparingly during the growing season and let the soil dry out almost completely between waterings; keep it nearly dry in the dormant period.
Soil
Fast-draining mix such as cactus or succulent soil with added grit or perlite.
Temperature
18–30 °C; protect below 10 °C
How easy
Moderate
Native range
W. Trop. Africa to Ethiopia
Climate
seasonally dry tropical

About

Ceropegia rhynchantha is a species of plant in the family Apocynaceae. It occurs in West Africa and has slender flowers, with basal inflation and slight expansion of the tube towards the mouth, as well as relatively long, narrow lobes.

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 rhynchantha 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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