The open plant encyclopedia
Snap a photo or search by any name to see how to care for it, where it comes from, whether it's safe, and a 3D model you can turn.
The plants people record most in your country, and ones that grow there wild.
Filter by what you want to do, shape, origin, country, care and safety.
Strophanthus boivinii
Strophanthus boivinii is a deciduous shrub or small tree from Madagascar, sometimes reaching 30 m, grown mainly as a botanical or specimen plant rather than a common garden subject. Care is best matched to a warm, dry, seasonal climate, with drought tolerance and good drainage as the key.
Strophanthus boivinii, the wood shaving flower, is a species of plant in the family Apocynaceae. It is native to Madagascar.
Strophanthus boivinii is endemic to Madagascar. Its habitat is deciduous forests and thickets, to 800 m (2,600 ft) altitude.
Strophanthus boivinii is locally used in traditional medicinal treatments for gonorrhoea, colic, wounds and itches.
Elephant Vine · Tailless Tail Flower · Goat Horns · Emin's strophanthus · Ouabain · Kombe arrow poison · Preuss' strophanthus · Strophanthus · Forest Poisonrope · Strophanthus welwitschii · Strophanthus
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Strophanthus boivinii 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.
