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In Singapore: Bunga Semubut, Geroboh, Kerubut, Seburut, Sel-wohl, Telinga Kelawar (Native to Singapore, Vulnerable)
Thottea grandiflora is a small shrub of the birthwort family, reaching about 1.2 metres, with pendulous, bulbous flowers marked white and green. It is a wet-tropical understorey plant that needs warm, humid, shaded conditions and is rarely grown outside its native range.
Thottea grandiflora is a small shrub to about 1.2 metres in height which is native to Burma, Thailand, Indo-China, Peninsular Malaysia and Singapore. It belongs to the family Aristolochiaceae. It has pendulous 8 to 10 cm long, somewhat bulbous flowers which are boldly marked with white and green markings.
[Contains information from Leaf Area Index (LAI) and Heritage Trees from data.gov.sg (National Parks Board), made available under the terms of the Singapore Open Data Licence version 1.0]
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Thottea grandiflora 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.
