Description: This plant has its origin in South America. Its cultivation is made in dark areas. For this, it is easily grown indoors. This plant was offered by Ernestina Silva, however due to its own characteristics it could not be transplanted to the garden. (*)
Provided by: Judite da Conceição e Ernestina Antónia da Silva, both Portuguese. The former was born in Guinea Bissau and the latter was born in Portugal.
Present Location: Plant nursery belonging to Moscavide and Portela Districts.
Last revision date: March 2016
(I) Numbering in accordance with the archive of trees and plants identified in the Quinta da Vitoria 2012 and 2013.
(II) Mabberley, David J. Mabberley´s Plant-Book: A Portable Dictionary of Plants, their Classifications and Uses. Cambridge University Press, 2008.
(*)Testimonies of residents gathered in a set of recorded conversations in the neighborhood of Quinta da Vitória and later to your demolition, recorded in Lisbon, Loures and London between July 2012 and October 2014
