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Spiral Vined Silkpod

Parsonsia alboflavescens

Spiral Vined Silkpod
Photo: Dinesh Valke from Thane, India, CC BY-SA 2.0

Parsonsia alboflavescens is a woody climbing vine (liana) of the dogbane family, native to tropical and subtropical Asia and northern Australia. It is a wild rainforest climber rarely grown in gardens, so care details are general guidance for a warm, humid climate.

Family
Apocynaceae (Dogbane family)
Grows as
Climber
Light
Part shade, Bright indirect
Water
Keep the soil evenly moist during the growing season and let the top layer dry slightly before watering again.
Soil
Well-draining, humus-rich potting mix or garden soil.
Temperature
18–30 °C; protect below 10 °C
How easy
Moderate
Native range
Trop. & Subtrop. Asia to N. Australia
Climate
wet tropical

About

Parsonsia alboflavescens is a woody vine of the family Apocynaceae, found from tropical and subtropical Asia to Northern Australia.

In the Northern Territory of Australia, where it occurs in Arnhem Land, it has been declared "near threatened".

Other Parsonsia plants

Parsonsia curvisepala · Parsonsia diaphanophleba · Gargaloo · Parsonsia howeana · Common Silkpod

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Parsonsia alboflavescens 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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