Asteraceae FAMILY

Borrichia frutescens

Edibility

1/5

Medicinal

1/5

Safety & Hazards

None known

Cultivation Details

HabitEvergreen Shrub

GrowthSlow

A plant mainly of the warm temperate to subtropical zones, entering into the tropics in Mexico and always found by the coast. Requires a sunny position^[1]. Plants are tolerant of saline soils, both acid and alkaline conditions and extended inundation^[1]. Established plants are fairly drought tolerant^[1]. A fairly slow-growing plant^[1].

Propagation

Seed - Cuttings Division Cite as: Tropical Plants Database, Ken Fern. tropical.theferns.info. 2026-02-19. <tropical.theferns.info/viewtropical.php?id=Borrichia+frutescens>

Pollinators

Butterflies

References

[1]Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences, University of Florida — University of Florida · http://hort.ifas.ufl.edu/shrubs/ ↩︎PDF fact sheets on over 500 shrubs.
[2]Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden Vol. 65 — Missouri Botanical Garden · 1978 ↩︎An excellent botanical publication, available for download from the Internet. This volume contains parts of the Flora of Panama.
[3]Flora of N. America — http://flora.huh.harvard.edu/fna/ ↩︎An on-line version of the flora with an excellent description of the plant including a brief mention of plant uses.
[4]Cornucopia II — Facciola. S. · Kampong Publications, California. · 1998 · ISBN 0-9628087-2-5 ↩︎The second edition of an excellent guide to the edible uses of plants, though it does not give any details of cultivation etc.
[PFAF]Plants for a Future — pfaf.org ↩︎