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Araujia sericifera

Botanic Family

Apocynaceae

Author

Brotero

Propagation

C.S.

Cultivated

C, ornamental with cultivars

Offspring

Araujia sericifera 'Variegata'

Common Names

• White Bladder Flower
• Moth Plant
• Cruel Plant
• Kapok Plant
• Doca or Tas or Taso (Spanish)

Geographical Habitats

• NE. Argentina
• Minas Gerais
• Paraná
• Rio de Grand do Sul
• Santa Catarina
• São Paulo
• Rio de Janeiro - Brazil
• Paraguay
• Uruguay

Natural Habitats

• Forest
• dry forest

Flowering Times

• All year (Argentina)
• Dec-Apr (Brazil)

Fruiting Times

• All year (Argentina)

Vigorous twining liane or scandent shrub with heart-shaped glabrous leaves or tomentose beneath with scattered pili above, to 130mm x 25mm. Axillary racemes of scented 35mm white or pinkish-white downy flowers in axillary clusters. Fruit a grooved follicle to 130mm long, yellowish-green & 70mm wide.

An invasive weed. Flower traps insects.

Medicinal uses, ornamental, comestible? fruit

Further References

• Bean 1950
• Menninger 1970
• Bailey 1976
• Herklots 1976
• Krussmann 1976
• van der Spuy 1976
• Beckett 1990
• Huxley 1992
• P & R 1997
• FONZ
• RHS A-Z
• GWC 1997
• Bodkin
• FB
• The Plant List 2
• de Candolle
• G. Don
• Botanicus
• Kew
• Mobot
• Academia