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Tetracera sarmentosa
Tetracera sarmentosa is a woody, evergreen climbing vine (liana) from the Dilleniaceae family, native to tropical and subtropical Asia from Sri Lanka to southern China and Malaysia. It can climb high into trees or grow as a shrub, and it needs warm, humid, moist conditions.
Tetracera sarmentosa is a vine/climber and shrub in the Dilleniaceae family. It is native to parts of Tropical and Temperate Asia, from Peninsular Malaysia to China and Sri Lanka.
The area of Tetracera sarmentosa's indigenous growth is in Asia, both in tropical and temperate areas. Countries and regions where it occurs are: Peninsular Malaysia; Thailand; Vietnam; China (Southeast and South-central including Guangdong, Guangxi, Yunnan, Hainan); Laos; Myanmar; and Sri Lanka. It is reported from Bangladesh (regions of Chittagong, Chittagong Hill Tracts, Cox’s Bazar, and Satchari National Park, Habiganj district), from India (Gondacherra & Chawmanu, Dhalai District; Chamtilla, North Tripura District, Tripura), and Biswanath district, Assam), and in Indonesia (Bengkulu, Sumatera).
The plant is one of the foods fed to captive elephants in Sri Lanka.
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Tetracera sarmentosa 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.
