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Pentalinon luteum
Also called Wild Allamanda, Wild Wist, Bay Withe, Bitter Pod, Catesby's Vine, Lice Bush, Nightsage
Hammock viper's-tail is a climbing vine in the dogbane family, native to Florida, the Caribbean and Honduras, with yellow trumpet flowers. It needs warmth, bright light and a support to climb on.
Pentalinon luteum, commonly known as hammock viper's-tail, licebush, wild allamanda, wild wist yellow mandevilla, and yellow dipladenia, is a vine native to islands of the Caribbean, Honduras, and the U.S. state of Florida.
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Pentalinon luteum 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.
