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Mussaenda parviflora
Mussaenda parviflora, the Taipei mussaenda, is a climbing shrub from subtropical East Asia, grown for its showy flowers. It does best with plenty of warmth and bright light, and it is frost tender.
Mussaenda parviflora is a species of flowering plant in the family Rubiaceae, native to Yakushima and the Ryukyu Islands of Japan, Taiwan, and Guangdong, China. A climbing shrub, it flowers March to May and fruits from August all the way to January.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Mussaenda parviflora 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.
