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Parsonsia curvisepala is a woody climbing vine (liana) of the dogbane family, native to wet tropical forests from Malaysia and Singapore through the Philippines to the Solomon Islands. It is a wild forest species rarely cultivated, so care advice below is general and inferred for a tropical climber.
Parsonsia curvisepala is a woody vine of the family Apocynaceae, found in Malaysia, New Guinea, the Philippines, the Solomon Islands, and Sulawesi. This species is second only to Parsonsia alboflavescens in its variability and wide geographic distribution.
Malaysia (Malay Peninsula), Sulawesi, the Philippines, New Guinea, and the Solomon Islands.
Spiral Vined Silkpod · Parsonsia diaphanophleba · Gargaloo · Parsonsia howeana · Common Silkpod
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Parsonsia curvisepala 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.
