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Red Cestrum

Iochroma fuchsioides

Also called Red Iochroma

Red Cestrum
Photo: Stan Shebs, CC BY-SA 3.0
Family
Solanaceae (Nightshade family)
Grows as
Shrub
Native range
SW. Colombia to Ecuador
Climate
wet tropical

About

Iochroma fuchsioides is an Iochroma species found in Ecuador and Colombia. It was first described in 1848. In addition to the known withanolide D {1}, three new withanolides have been isolated from Iochroma fuchsioides.

Other Iochroma plants

Wild Tobacco · Iochroma brevistamineum · Iochroma lehmannii · Iochroma longipes · Iochroma warscewiczii · Violetbushes

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Iochroma fuchsioides by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.

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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