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Turnera panamensis

Turnera panamensis
Photo: Dario, CC0

Turnera panamensis is a tree from wet tropical Central America and northwestern Colombia, related to the passionflower family's Turnera relatives. It is not a commonly grown houseplant, so care guidance is mainly for warm, frost-free gardens or greenhouses.

Family
Turneraceae (Turner family)
Grows as
Tree
Light
Full sun, Part shade
Water
Keep soil evenly moist during the growing season and let the top few centimetres dry out before watering again.
Soil
Well-drained, fertile loam or a rich potting mix.
Temperature
20–30 °C; protect below 10 °C
How easy
Moderate
Native range
C. America to NW. Colombia
Climate
wet tropical

About

Turnera panamensis is a species of flowering plant in the passionflower family. It is native to Central America and Northwestern Colombia.

Other Turnera plants

Turnera chamaedrifolia · Damiana · Turnera hermannioides · Turnera hindsiana · Turnera oculata · Turnera opifera · Yellow alder · Rough Yellow Alder · Politician's Flower · Ramgoat dashalong · Turnera

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Turnera panamensis 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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