Manaca
Brunfelsia uniflora (Pohl) D.Don
- light
- Any light
- water
- Medium
- tall
- 2.3 m
- wide
- —
Solanaceae
Formerly Brunfelsia hopeana, Brunfelsia mutabilis, Franciscea hopeana, Franciscea mutabilis, and 1 more
When it flowers
Not known yet in the tropics: too few flowering observations to read a season from.
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Something wrong with it?About it
- Grows as
- ShrubKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- Seasonally dry tropicalKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- Trinidad (Monos I.) to NW. ArgentinaKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Light
- Sun or shadeRead from Top Tropicals, one source
- Height
- 1.5 m to 3.0 mRead from Top Tropicals and Wikipedia, checked by a majority of its sourcesBacked by both sources. Sources differ: Top Tropicals 5–10 ft; Wikipedia 0.5–3 m
- Water
- Average: moist, well drainedRead from Top Tropicals, one source
- Flowers
- White, purple, blueRead from Top Tropicals, one source
- Coldest it survives
- -6.7 °C (USDA zone 9a)Read from Top Tropicals, one source
Not known yet: spread, heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (3)
- Portuguese
- Manacá
- Swedish
- Manacabrunfelsia
- Chinese
- 单花鸳鸯茉莉, 變色茉莉
Where this comes from
- Wikidata, read 2026-10-25, CC0-1.0
- Kew's checklist, read 2026-10-24, CC-BY-4.0
- Top Tropicals, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikipedia, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-25, CC BY 2.0
- 3D model: Brunfelsia uniflora (built for Vanagrha) by Vanagrha, own
A fact “checked by a majority of its sources” was settled by a vote of the pages it was read from, not by a person reading it; one marked “one source” rests on that page alone. Anything else not marked checked has not been checked yet. Where nothing is known, the page says so rather than guess.