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Actinodaphne wightiana is a tree in the laurel family, native to the southern Western Ghats of southwestern India, where it grows in evergreen tropical moist forest. It is a forest timber-type tree rather than a common garden plant, so care details are general and mostly for cultivation in similar warm, humid conditions.
Actinodaphne wightiana is a species of tree in the laurel family, Lauraceae. It native to the southern Western Ghats of Karnataka, Kerala and Tamil Nadu states in southwestern India. Its leaves are densely hirsute to tomentellous beneath and its fruits are 7–10 mm (0.28–0.39 in) in diameter. It grows in evergreen tropical moist forests from 100 to 1,000 metres elevation. It is threatened with habitat loss from deforestation to expand agriculture and plantations. The IUCN Red List assesses the species as Least Concern.
The species was first described as Iozoste wightiana by Otto Kuntze in 1891. In 2005 Henry Noltie placed the species in genus Actinodaphne as A. wightiana.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Actinodaphne wightiana by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.
The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
