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Fischeria scandens

Botanic Family

Apocynaceae

Author

de Candolle

Common Names

Geographical Habitats

• Antilles
• Belize
• Cuba
• Ecuador
• Guatemala
• Honduras
• Jamaica
• Mexico
• Nicaragua
• Trinidad

Natural Habitats

• Moist forest
• streamside
• riverside
• woodland

Flowering Times

• Aug (Jamaica)

Fruiting Times

• Mar-May

Hairy high-climbing twining scrambling evergreen vine. Puberulous leaves, velvety beneath scabrous above. Many-flowered extra-axillary cymes or umbels of 15mm wide perfumed flowers, green & cream or white with contorted petals, faint purple flecks, green at base of segments, 5-lobed corona. Follicle to 220mm long.

Further References

• Mobot
• NYBG
• Neotrop
• de Candolle
• The Plant List 2
• G. Don
• Botanicus
• SAFIO
• Kew