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Senegalia riparia
Catch and keep is a thorny, scrambling liana in the pea family, native from Mexico to Paraguay and the Caribbean. It is a wild climber of wet tropical forest edges and is rarely grown as a garden or houseplant.
Senegalia riparia, commonly known as catch & keep, calumbi, jurema-branca, acacia zarza, amourette, and fleur du ben-aimé, is a thorny flowering plant of the family Fabaceae. It is native to Hispaniola, Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, the Lesser Antilles,Trinidad, and northern South America (as far as western Bolivia).
Senegalia ankokib · Senegalia ataxacantha · Senegalia caraniana · Senegalia condyloclada · Senegalia grandisiliqua · Senegalia modesta · Senegalia nigrescens · Senegalia pennata · Senegalia robynsiana · Senegalia sakalava · Senegalia schlechteri · Senegalia venosa
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Senegalia riparia 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.
