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Silene perlmanii
Cliff-face catchfly is a rare white-flowered subshrub from the Waiʻanae Range of Oahu, Hawaii, and no wild plants remain. It survives only in cultivation, such as at the National Tropical Botanical Garden, so growing it requires specialist conservation-grade care.
Silene perlmanii is a rare species of flowering plant in the family Caryophyllaceae known by the common name cliff-face catchfly. It is endemic to Hawaii, where it is known only from the southern Waiʻanae Range of Oahu. Today there are no plants left in the wild. The species is in cultivation at the National Tropical Botanical Garden. It is a federally listed endangered species of the United States.
This white-flowered subshrub was first discovered in 1987. When it was placed on the Endangered Species List in 1991 there were 10 to 20 individuals known to exist, growing on cliff faces in the moist forests of the Waiʻanae Range. By 1997 these were gone. The plant exists in cultivation, and several individuals have been outplanted in appropriate habitat. As of 2008 three of these have survived. They are protected inside fenced enclosures.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Silene perlmanii 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.
