Small scarlet Manettia calycosa flowers open beside pointed green leaves on slender climbing stems

Manettia calycosa


Native to the Caribbean and northern South America from Venezuela to Ecuador, this climbing plant belongs to the coffee family. It inhabits wet tropical environments and occurs in Colombia’s Andean region from roughly eighteen hundred to eighty-one hundred feet above sea level. It has red flowers and broad calyx lobes. Photographed in Colombia.


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