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Vincetoxicum hainanense

Vincetoxicum hainanense is a wild climbing shrub from the dogbane family, native to southern China and Cambodia. It is not a common garden or houseplant, so there is little cultivation guidance to go by.

Family
Apocynaceae (Dogbane family)
Grows as
Shrub, Climber
Temperature
Wet tropical climate; likely needs warm conditions year round, cold limit unknown
Native range
China (Guangdong) to Cambodia
Climate
wet tropical

About

Vincetoxicum hainanense is a species of plants in the Apocynaceae. It was first described in 1941 as Merrillanthus hainanensis, which was the only species in the genus Merrillanthus.

It is native to Guangdong, Hainan, and Cambodia

Other Vincetoxicum plants

Vincetoxicum tsaii · Vincetoxicum shaanxiense · Cynanchum elegans · Cynanchum floribundum · Vincetoxicum diplostigma · Vincetoxicum oblongum · Vincetoxicum auritum · Vincetoxicum forsteri · Vincetoxicum rupicola · Swallowwort · Vincetoxicum anomalum · Bearded Tylophora

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Vincetoxicum hainanense 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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