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Clermontia oblongifolia
Clermontia oblongifolia is a Hawaiian shrub or small tree in the bellflower family, one of several ʻoha wai lobelioids, and this entry covers the species across its subspecies. It grows in wet tropical rainforest and montane forest, so it needs cool, humid, shaded conditions and is not a typical garden plant.
Clermontia oblongifolia is a species of flowering plant in the bellflower family known by the common name Oahu clermontia. It is one of several Hawaiian lobelioids in genus Clermontia that are known as ʻoha wai. This plant is native to three of the Hawaiian Islands, where one subspecies is not uncommon but the other two are very rare and endangered.
The more common subspecies, ssp. oblongifolia, is endemic to Oʻahu, where it grows in rainforests.
Kohala Mountain clermontia · 'oha kepau · Hillside clermontia · Mauna Loa clermontia · Pele clermontia · Hamakua clermontia · Hana clermontia
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Clermontia oblongifolia 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.
