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Secamone socotrana

Secamone socotrana is a scrambling shrub in the dogbane family, endemic to the Socotra Islands of Yemen, where it grows in dry forest and dry shrubland. It is a wild species rarely grown in gardens, so care depends on mimicking its arid native conditions.

Family
Apocynaceae (Dogbane family)
Grows as
Shrub, Climber
Light
Full sun
Water
Water sparingly and let the soil dry out fully between waterings; it tolerates drought.
Soil
Free-draining sandy or gritty mix.
Temperature
18–35 °C; protect below 10 °C
How easy
Moderate
Native range
Socotra
Climate
desert or dry shrubland

About

Secamone socotrana is a species of plant in the family Apocynaceae. It is endemic to the Socotra Islands in the Republic of Yemen. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical dry forests and subtropical or tropical dry shrubland.

Other Secamone plants

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

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Secamone socotrana 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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