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Schwenckia filiformis is a small annual or short-lived subshrub from the nightshade family, native to Cuba, the Cayman Islands and Hispaniola, with thread-like branches and pale blue flowers. It is a wild plant of seasonally dry tropical areas and is rarely grown in gardens, so care information is limited.
Schwenckia filiformis is a species of flowering plant in the family Solanaceae.
The species was first collected by Swedish botanist, Erik Leonard Ekman and later described by German botanist, Ignatz Urban, with the description published in Symbolae Antillanae 9:251 in 1924.
S. filiformis is indigenous to Cuba, the Cayman Islands and Hispaniola. It grows primarily in seasonally dry tropical biomes.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Schwenckia filiformis 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.
