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Secamone schatzii

Secamone schatzii is a climbing liana (up to about 20 m) from the lowland rainforest of eastern Madagascar, with small yellow-orange tubular flowers. It is a wild forest species rarely grown in gardens, so care guidance is limited and based on general knowledge of Secamone.

Family
Apocynaceae (Dogbane family)
Grows as
Climber
Light
Bright indirect
Water
Water when the top few centimetres of soil are dry, reducing in cooler months.
Soil
Well-drained, humus-rich mix with added bark or perlite.
Temperature
18–30 °C; protect below 10 °C
Native range
Madagascar
Climate
seasonally dry tropical

About

Secamone schatzii is a plant species endemic to Madagascar. It grows in lowland rainforest in the eastern part of the country. The species is named in honor of George Schatz of the Missouri Botanical Garden.

Secamone schatzii is a liana climbing as high as 20 m (66 ft). Stems are hairless, round in cross-section. Leaves are opposite, unlobed, elliptical, up to 6 cm (2.4 in) long. Flores are borne in short racemes in the axils of the leaves. Corolla is tubular, yellow-orange, up to 1.3 mm (0.051 in) long, hairy in the mouth but smooth and hairless on the lobes, thinning toward the margins.

Other Secamone plants

Monkey Rope · Secamone cuneifolia · Corky Milk Vine · Secamone racemosa · Secamone socotrana · Secamone volubilis · Secamone

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Secamone schatzii 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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