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Schradera exotica

Botanic Family

Rubiaceae

Author

(J.F. Gmelin) Standley

Common Names

Geographical Habitats

• Brazil
• Colombia
• Cuba
• Hispaniola
• Leeward Islands
• Lesser Antilles
• Puerto Rico
• Venezuela
• Windward islands

Natural Habitats

• Forest riverside
• montane forest

Flowering Times

• Feb
• Mar
• Apr
• Jul Mar-Jul & Nov (Puerto Rico)

Fruiting Times

• Jul

Vine-like sprawling succulent glabrous shrub, liana or tree to 7m with adventitious roots when juvenile, sometimes epiphytic, with terminal inflorescence subtended by a bract, of fragrant cream or white flowers 17mm long with lobes at least as long, 6-lobed calyx 10mm long, white corolla with tube 17mm x 5mm with 5-7 lobes, white fleshy berry to 15mm long, glabrous coriaceous leaves 105mm x 55mm

Further References

• Mobot
• Rub Ven
• NYBG
• The Plant List 2
• VOPR
• NAF
• Kew
• JAA
• Smithsonian
• Plantae Wrightianae