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Echites umbellatus
About
Echites umbellatus is a flowering climber, belonging to subfamily Apocynoideae of the family Apocynaceae and has the English common name devil's potato. It was first described in 1760 by Dutch botanist, Nikolaus Joseph von Jacquin. The species grows in parts of Florida, Tabasco, Yucatán Peninsula, Belize, Honduras, Cayman Islands, Cuba, Hispaniola, Jamaica, Leeward Islands, Bahamas, Turks and Caicos Islands, and the Colombian islands in the Western Caribbean.
- Family
- Apocynaceae
Ecology
How it lives
- Propagated by
- Seed
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- Name
- Echites umbellatus
- Slug
- echites-umbellatus
- Kingdom
- Plantae
- Family
- Apocynaceae
- Genus
- Echites
- Species
- umbellatus
- Propagule type
- seed
- Container suitable
- No
- Indoor suitable
- No
- OSSI pledged
- No
- Hazard level
- 1
- Data completeness
- 43
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