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Floscopa scandens
Also called Climbing Flowering Broom
Floscopa scandens is a subscandent (weakly climbing) herb in the Spiderwort family, native across tropical and subtropical Asia and northern Queensland, where it often grows near streams and in marshy ground. It is grown mainly as a moisture-loving garden or wetland plant rather than as a common houseplant.
Floscopa scandens is a species of flowering plant in the family Commelinaceae. It is sometimes referred to by the common name climbing flower cup. It is a subscandent herb native to the Andaman Islands, Assam, Bangladesh, Borneo, Cambodia, China, East Himalaya, India, Java, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Nepal, the Nicobar Islands, the Philippines, Queensland (Australia), Sri Lanka, Taiwan, Thailand, Tibet, and Vietnam.
In Western Ghats it is commonly found near streams and marshy localities in the forests of Western Ghats.
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Floscopa scandens 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.
