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Medinilla samoensis is a woody climbing vine in the Melastomataceae family, native to the Samoan Islands, where it grows high into the humid canopy of tropical forest. It is rarely grown outside its native range, so care is best judged from related Medinilla species that are grown as warm, humid greenhouse plants.
Medinilla samoensis is a species of flowering plant in the family Melastomataceae, native to the Samoan Islands. It grows as a high-climbing woody vine within the wet, humid canopy biomes of tropical forests across islands such as Savai'i and Upolu.
The species was originally described in 1925 by Swiss botanist Bénédict Pierre Georges Hochreutiner as a variety, Medinilla amoena var. samoensis. It was later elevated to a distinct species status by Norwegian botanist Erling Christophersen in 1938.
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Medinilla samoensis 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.
