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Tinospora esiangkara

Tinospora esiangkara
Photo: J. Wrigley, CC BY 4.0

Tinospora esiangkara is a slender woody climber from seasonally dry tropical forests of northern Australia, known from only three widely separated populations. It is rarely grown, and its care is mostly inferred from related tropical climbers.

Family
Menispermaceae (Menisperm family)
Grows as
Climber
Light
Part shade, Bright indirect
Water
Water regularly during the growing season and let the top of the soil dry slightly between waterings.
Soil
Well-drained, fertile potting mix with some organic matter.
Temperature
18–32 °C; protect below 10 °C
How easy
Moderate
Native range
NW. & N. Australia
Climate
seasonally dry tropical

About

Tinospora esiangkara is a species of plant in the family Menispermaceae. It is native to northern parts of Western Australia, the Northern Territory and Queensland, Australia.

Where it grows

This species is endemic to Australia and occurs in three widely separated populations – Cape York Peninsula in Queensland, where the majority of occurrences are; Arnhem Land in the Northern Territory, roughly 1,000 km (620 mi) to the west; and North West Cape in Western Australia, another 2,250 km (1,400 mi) to the southwest. It grows in seasonally dry tropical forests.

Other Tinospora plants

Tinospora celebica · Tinospora cordifolia · Tinospora dissitiflora · Snake Vine · Tinospora

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Tinospora esiangkara 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.

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