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Jupunba oppositifolia

Jupunba oppositifolia
Photo: The New York Botanical Garden, CC BY 4.0

Jupunba oppositifolia is a tropical tree in the pea and bean family, native to Cuba and Hispaniola. It is a wet-tropical forest species rarely grown outside its native range, so care guidance is limited.

Family
Fabaceae (Pea & bean family)
Grows as
Tree
Light
Bright indirect
Native range
SC. & SE. Cuba to SW. & C. Hispaniola
Climate
wet tropical

About

Jupunba oppositifolia is a species of flowering plant of the genus Jupunba in the family Fabaceae. It is a tree native to south-central & southeastern Cuba and southwestern and central Hispaniola.

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 oppositifolia 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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