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Desmos wardianus is a scrambling shrub or vine from northern Australia, grown mainly as a curiosity in tropical gardens. It needs warm, humid conditions and a sheltered spot with some support to climb on.
Desmos wardianus is a species of plants in the custard apple family Annonaceae found only in the Northern Territory and Queensland, Australia. It is a scrambling shrub or vine with a stem up to 8 cm (3.1 in) diameter. The leaves are simple and alternate and measure up to 8 cm (3.1 in) long by 3 cm (1.2 in) wide. Flowers are about 5 cm (2.0 in) wide and greenish yellow, with 3 sepals and 6 petals in two whorls of 3. The fruit takes the form of a cluster of apocarps, each about 7 mm (0.28 in) wide and 5 cm (2.0 in) long. It grows in drier rainforest types such as monsoon forest and gallery forest in the Top End region of the Northern Territory, and in Cape York Peninsula. It was first described by Frederick Manson Bailey in 1902 as Unona wardiana, and transferred to the current name by Australian botanist Laurence W. Jessup in 1986.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Desmos wardianus 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.
