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Cape York jungle vine

Neosepicaea viticoides

Cape York jungle vine
Photo: Ludwig Diels, Public domain

Neosepicaea viticoides is a large woody climbing vine from the trumpet-vine family (Bignoniaceae), native to New Guinea and a small area of Queensland's Cape York Peninsula. It is a rainforest liana rarely grown in gardens, so care is mainly a matter of mimicking warm, humid tropical forest conditions.

Family
Bignoniaceae (Trumpet-vine family)
Grows as
Climber
Light
Part shade
Water
Keep soil evenly moist during the growing season and reduce watering in cooler months.
Soil
Well-drained, fertile, humus-rich mix.
Temperature
18–30 °C; protect below 10 °C
How easy
Hard
Native range
New Guinea to Queensland
Climate
wet tropical

About

Neosepicaea viticoides, commonly known as Cape York jungle vine, is a species of plant in the family Bignoniaceae. It is native to New Guinea and a small part of Cape York Peninsula, Queensland, Australia.

It is a vine with a stem diameter up to 8 cm (3.1 in) thick. The leaves are palmately compound, with three or five leaflets. It occurs in Cape York Peninsula in the vicinity of Lockhart River and in New Guinea.

Other Neosepicaea plants

Neosepicaea aurantiaca · Jungle vine · Neosepicaea leptophylla · Neosepicaea

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Neosepicaea viticoides 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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