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Wissadula amplissima
Big yellow velvetleaf (Wissadula amplissima) is a hairy shrub up to 3 m tall with heart-shaped, velvety leaves and clusters of small yellow flowers. It is native to tropical America and is grown mainly as an ornamental or left in the wild in warm, seasonally dry areas.
Wissadula amplissima, the big yellow velvetleaf, is a species of shrub native to the American tropics, including Mexico. It may also occur in Cape Verde and Tropical Africa, depending on whether the African plants are a variety of this species or Wissadula rostrata. It belongs to the family Malvaceae.
In the Americas, big yellow velvetleaf occurs throughout most of Mexico except for the drier areas, the Caribbean and south through Central America into Peru and most of Brazil in South America. Plants of the World Online places the species in tropical Africa, on the basis that the taxon known as Wissadula rostrata should be treated as a subspecies of Wissadula amplissima. A 2010 paper suggests that the African plants merit recognition as a distinct species.
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Wissadula amplissima 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.
