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A wet-tropical climbing shrub from the spurge family, native to Central and northern South America, grown mainly as a warm-climate garden climber. Give it warmth, humidity and a support to climb.
Dalechampia dioscoreifolia is a species of plant in the family Euphorbiaceae first described in 1841. It is native to Central America (Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Panama) and northern and western South America (Colombia, Venezuela, French Guiana, northern Brazil, Bolivia, and possibly Ecuador).
Dalechampia capensis · Dalechampia triphylla · Spurgecreepers
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Dalechampia dioscoreifolia 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.
