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Jupunba

Jupunba
Photo: Alex Popokvin, CC BY 2.0

Jupunba is a genus of tropical legume trees and shrubs from the Fabaceae family, native to the Americas from southern Mexico through Central and South America and the Caribbean. Members are rarely grown as garden plants, so care advice is general for tropical legume trees.

Family
Fabaceae (Pea & bean family)
Light
Full sun
Water
Water regularly while establishing, then let the top few centimetres of soil dry out between waterings.
Soil
Well-drained loam or sandy loam, tolerant of a range of soil types.
Temperature
18–35 °C; protect below 10 °C
How easy
Moderate

About

Jupunba is a genus in the family Fabaceae. It is native to the tropical Americas, ranging from southern Mexico to the Caribbean, Central America, and tropical South America.

Other Jupunba plants

Jupunba abbottii · Jupunba barbouriana · Jupunba curvicarpa var. rodriguesii · Jupunba zolleriana · Jupunba adenophora · Jupunba alexandri var. troyana · Jupunba alexandri · Jupunba asplenifolia · Jupunba auriculata · Jupunba brachystachya · Jupunba campestris · Jupunba cochleata var. moniliformis

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Jupunba 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.

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