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Willughbeia edulis

Willughbeia edulis
Photo: Willuconquer, CC BY-SA 4.0

Willughbeia edulis is a climbing vine (liana) of wet tropical forests, grown for its edible yellow-orange fruit and the latex from its stems. Sources describe the species only; care advice is general knowledge for vines of this type.

Family
Apocynaceae (Dogbane family)
Grows as
Climber
Light
Bright indirect, Part shade
Water
Water regularly during the growing season and let the top of the soil dry slightly between waterings.
Soil
Well-drained, fertile, slightly acidic loam or peat-rich mix.
Temperature
22–32 °C; protect below 15 °C
How easy
Hard
Edible
Yes, some parts
Native range
Assam to Malaya
Climate
wet tropical

About

Willughbeia edulis or rubber vine fruit is a vine species bearing tropical fruit in the family Apocynaceae.

Other Willughbeia plants

Willughbeia sarawacensis

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Willughbeia edulis 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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