Marcgravia evenia
A woody climbing vine endemic to the rainforests of Cuba, known for the dish-shaped leaves above its hanging flower clusters that reflect bat calls and guide pollinating bats to the nectar. Young plants climb tree trunks with small leaves pressed flat against the bark. Little is published about its growing conditions, so the care notes here follow the genus and the humid Cuban forests where it has been recorded.
Where it grows wild
A rainforest vine. Juvenile stems creep and cling to trunks with roots. Mature fertile branches hang free, without roots, and carry pendant inflorescences with cupped, sonar-reflecting bracts and nectaries visited by bats.
The records carry no elevations. The mapped sites are in the mountains of eastern Cuba near Baracoa and in the Sierra del Rosario in the west, probably low to middle elevations; this is not confirmed.
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