Accession Data:
Aristolochia arborea Linden
- Common Name:
- Family: Aristolochiaceae Juss.
- Country of Origin: Mexico to El Salvador
- Habitat: moist mountainsides
- Description: Small, thin, rainforest tree of Central America with corky bark. Reaches a height of 5-6m. Flowers appear mostly in clusters near the base of the tree with occasional solitary or paired flowers in the axils higher up. Flower resembles a small capped mushroom in the genus Marasmius and possibly pollinated by mushroom gnats.
Rare in the wild due to deforestation, uncommon in cultivation.
Botanical Description available on pg 134 of Revision of the North and Central American Hexandrous Species of Aristolochia (Aristolochiaceae), Howard W. Pfeifer, Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden, Vol. 53, No. 2. (1966), pp. 115-196. {JSTOR archive, subscription may be required}
- USDA Zone: 10-11
Accession Data:
- Accession # 200201599
- Source: Marcia Kirinus - Duke
- Provenance:
acquired rooted cutting from Duke - 4/4/02 - Duke accession 98-031 cutting to Duke from Museum of Life & Science, Durham, NC ex Missouri Botanic Garden via Tom Hecker (ML&S). Missouri Botanic Garden specimen was a seedling from Bonn Botanic Garden, whose specimen came from Botanic Garden Bogor by Dieter Roth.
- Accession Date: 04-04-2002
- Bench: 1315 - NEOA: East Bench SS
- Currently: active - healthy
- Qty: 1 confirmed on 10-08-2024
Classification:
- Division: Magnoliophyta
- Class: Magnoliopsida
- SubClass: magnoliids
- Order: Piperales
- SubOrder:
- Family: Aristolochiaceae
- SubFamily: Aristolchioideae
- Tribe: Aristolochieae
- SubTribe:
Flowering Data:
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References (internal):
- EEB Greenhouse Holdings native to: Mexico Gulf / Mexico Southeast / Belize / El Salvador / Guatemala
References (external):
- Aristolochia arborea: The Biology and Thread of a Remarkable Rain Forest Tree from Central America by Christoph Neinhuis, Dieter Roth und Wilhelm Barthlott - last visited 4/4/02.
- Revision of the North and Central American Hexandrous Species of Aristolochia (Aristolochiaceae), Howard W. Pfeifer, Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden, Vol. 53, No. 2. (1966), pp. 115-196. {JSTOR archive, subscription may be required}
- The Plant List (2013). Version 1.1. Last accessed on Friday, September 08, 2017.
- Aristolochia arborea at Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Last accessed on Friday, September 08, 2017.
data regenerated on Mon, 24 Mar 2025 08:42:09 -0400 [bcm v4.0]
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Current Accessions in the Aristolochiaceae
Subfamily Aristolchioideae
Tribe Aristolochieae
- Aristolochia arborea
- Aristolochia californica
- Aristolochia chilensis
- Aristolochia fimbriata
- Aristolochia gigantea
- Aristolochia littoralis
- Aristolochia ringens
Subfamily Asaroideae
Tribe Sarumeae
W/C = Wild Collected
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