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Jupunba cochleata

Jupunba cochleata is a lowland Amazon rainforest tree from northern, northeastern and west-central Brazil, in the pea and bean family. It is not a cultivated garden or houseplant, so care guidance is limited to its wild tropical habitat.

Family
Fabaceae (Pea & bean family)
Grows as
Tree
Temperature
Wet tropical lowland climate; not cold tolerant.
Native range
Brazil
Climate
wet tropical

About

Jupunba cochleata is a species of plant of the genus Jupunba in the family Fabaceae. It is a tree native to the lowland Amazon rainforest of northern, northeastern and west-central Brazil.

Two varieties are accepted:

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 cochleata 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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