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Zehneria alba is a dioecious climbing vine from the gourd family, endemic to Christmas Island in the Indian Ocean, found in rainforest and forest edges. It is a wild rainforest climber with little cultivation history, so care knowledge is limited.
Zehneria alba is a species of flowering plant in the cucumber and gourd family, Cucurbitaceae. It is endemic to Christmas Island, an Australian territory in the northeastern Indian Ocean. The specific epithet is from the Latin albus (white), referring to the colour of the flowers.
Found only on Christmas Island, the vine grows there both within the rainforest and along its shrubbed edges.
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Zehneria alba 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.
