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Spiny Fiddlewood

Citharexylum spinosum

Also called Fiddlewood, Florida Fiddlewood, Savannah Berry, Susanna Berry

In Singapore: Fiddlewood, 提琴木 (Grown in Singapore)

Spiny Fiddlewood
Photo: Vinayaraj, CC BY-SA 3.0

Spiny Fiddlewood is a small tree or large shrub from the Caribbean and northern South America, grown mainly in warm frost-free gardens for its fragrant flowers and berries. It needs full sun and well-drained soil, and it is not a common houseplant.

Family
Verbenaceae (Verbena family)
Grows as
Tree, Shrub
Light
Full sun
Water
Water regularly while establishing, then let the top of the soil dry between waterings.
Soil
Well-drained loam or sandy soil; tolerates poor soil.
Temperature
18–32 °C; protect below 5 °C
How easy
Easy
Native range
Caribbean, Panama to N. South America
Climate
wet tropical

About

Citharexylum spinosum is a species of flowering plant in the family Verbenaceae that is native to southern Florida in the United States, the Caribbean, Guyana, Suriname, and Venezuela. Common names include Florida fiddlewood and spiny fiddlewood.

[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]

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Citharexylum spinosum 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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