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Phanera curtisii is a wild climbing liana (a 'monkey ladder' vine) from the pea family, native to Indochina and Peninsular Malaysia. It is grown mainly as a landscape or botanical climber in wet tropical climates rather than as a houseplant.
Phanera curtisii is a species of 'monkey ladder' lianas in the subfamily Cercidoideae and the tribe Bauhinieae, the genus having been separated from Bauhinia and the defunct genus Lasiobema.
It is a climbing shrub native to Indochina (Cambodia, Laos, Thailand, and Vietnam) and Peninsular Malaysia.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Phanera curtisii 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.
