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Echites yucatanensis

Echites yucatanensis
Photo: Gaiacoyote, CC0

Echites yucatanensis is a climbing species in the Dogbane family, native to wet tropical forests from southern Mexico to Nicaragua, with woody bases and herbaceous tips and white salverform flowers. It is a wild tropical climber rarely grown in gardens, so its care needs are general knowledge rather than documented cultivation.

Family
Apocynaceae (Dogbane family)
Grows as
Climber
Light
Bright indirect, Part shade
Water
Keep the soil evenly moist during growth and let the top layer dry slightly between waterings.
Soil
Well-drained, fertile potting mix or garden soil with organic matter.
Temperature
18-30 °C; protect below 10 °C
How easy
Moderate
Native range
S. Mexico to Nicaragua
Climate
wet tropical

About

Echites yucatanensis, with no commonly accepted English name, is a neotropical climbing species of flowering plant belonging to the family Apocynaceae.

Where it grows

Echites yucatanensis occurs from southern Mexico south into Nicaragua..

Other Echites plants

Echites panduratus

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Echites yucatanensis 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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