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Helicteres baruensis is a small shrub, up to about 2 m tall, native to seasonally dry tropical forest from Mexico to Venezuela and the West Indies. It is a wild species of dry lowland woodland rather than a commonly cultivated garden plant, so care is best matched to warm, dry, sunny conditions.
Helicteres baruensis, or the tornillo de Venezuela ("Venezuelan screw") is a species of plant belonging to the family Malvaceae.
It is native to the West Indies, where it grows in warm climates, from sea level to 30 metres (100 ft) in altitude, associated with tropical deciduous and subdeciduous forests.
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Helicteres baruensis 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.
