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Aristolochiaceae
Bejuco de santiago
Aristolochia trilobata
Also known as Howardia trilobata, Aristolochia trifida, Santiago vine, Passiflora caloneura
Tropical Plants · Edibles & Herbs · Native Plants · Tropical · Vine · Climbing · Medicinal · Traditional · Aristolochia · Humid · Greenhouse · Exotic · Rare
This tropical climbing vine requires warm, humid conditions and regular watering to thrive. Provide strong support and monitor for pests in greenhouse environments. Traditional medicinal uses but requires expertise to grow successfully.
Growing conditions
The details behind the basics
- Daily light
- 4 hours
- Watering
- Maintain consistently moist soil without waterlogging · Every 5-7 days
- Maintenance
- High
- Soil
- loam
- Soil pH
- 6–7.5
- Temperature
- -10°F to 90°F
- Cycle
- Perennial
Hardiness
USDA 5a-9b
Form & growth
Mature size and habit
- Mature height
- 10 ft – 20 ft
- Spread
- 10 ft
- Spacing
- 36 in apart
- Growth rate
- Moderate
- Root depth
- Medium
- Flowers
- No
- Foliage
- Medium
Ecology & origin
Where it belongs and what it brings
- Native to
- Belize, Bermuda, Brazil North, Brazil Northeast, Brazil Southeast, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, French Guiana, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Jamaica, Leeward Is., Mexico Southeast, Nicaragua, Panamá, Puerto Rico, Suriname
- Attracts
- Butterflies, Moths
Sources: trefle, usda
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