PlantPeers
Back to Catalog
No image available
Bignoniaceae FAMILY

Tanaecium jaroba

Tanaecium jaroba

Edibility
0/5
Medicinal
2/5

Safety & Hazards

None known

Cultivation Details

HabitClimber
Growth—

The flowers open of a night time and have a sweet aroma, rather like Hedychium species[1].

Propagation

Seed - Cite as: Tropical Plants Database, Ken Fern. tropical.theferns.info. 2026-02-20. <tropical.theferns.info/viewtropical.php?id=Tanaecium+jaroba>

Pollinators

Moths

References

  1. [1]Flora of Costa Rica — Standley P.C. · Field Museum of Natural History; Chicago · 1938 · http://www.archive.org/ ↩︎Rather dated, but an excellent treatment of the area. Available for download from the internet.
  2. [2]Evaluation of the antimalarial activity of plants used by the Chacobo Indians — Muñoz V. et al · 2000 ↩︎
  3. [3]Enciclopedia de las Plantas Útiles del Ecuador — de la Torre, L., Navarrete H., P. Muriel M., Macía M.J. & Ba · Herbario QCA de la Escuela de Ciencias Biológicas de la Pontific · 2008 · ISBN 978-9978-77-135-8 ↩︎