Plant Wiki

The open plant encyclopedia

Know any plant.
Grow it well.

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.

  • 13,000+plants with full pages
  • 365,000+plant species worldwide
  • 220+countries covered

Common in

See all

The plants people record most in your country, and ones that grow there wild.

What do you want to do?

Popular plants

Browse all plants

See them in 3D

All plants in 3D

Browse plants

Filter by what you want to do, shape, origin, country, care and safety.

Plant Wiki › Browse plants

Tropaeolum leptophyllum

Tropaeolum leptophyllum
Photo: Dick Culbert from Gibsons, B.C., Canada, CC BY 2.0

Tropaeolum leptophyllum is a tuberous perennial climber from the nasturtium family, native to the mountains of central Chile and western Argentina. It is grown mainly by specialists and does best with a dormant dry period over summer.

Family
Tropaeolaceae (Tropaeol family)
Grows as
Climber, Perennial
Light
Full sun, Part shade
Water
Water during the growing season in cool weather, then keep the tuber nearly dry while it is dormant.
Soil
Free-draining, gritty soil or a loam with added sand and grit.
Temperature
5–20 °C; tolerates light frost when dormant, protect tubers below -5 °C
How easy
Moderate
Native range
C. Chile to W. Argentina
Climate
temperate

About

Tropaeolum leptophyllum is a perennial climber in the Tropaeolaceae family. It is endemic to mountainous regions of Chile.

Other Tropaeolum plants

Tropaeolum adpressum · Tropaeolum argentinum · Tropaeolum asplundii · Blue Nasturtium · Tropaeolum beuthii · Tropaeolum brachyceras · Tropaeolum brideanum · Tropaeolum carchense · Tropaeolum emarginatum · Tropaeolum hookerianum · Tropaeolum huigrense · Tropaeolum incisum

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Tropaeolum leptophyllum 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.

Credits & terms

Identify a plant

Point at a leaf or flower and snap. One plant in frame works best.

Your photo
Starting camera…