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Adenanthera aglaosperma

Adenanthera aglaosperma
Photo: Alston, A. H. G.; Hooker, Joseph Dalton; Trimen, Henry, Public domain

Adenanthera aglaosperma is a lowland rainforest tree from southwestern Sri Lanka, in the pea family. It is rarely grown outside its native range, so care guidance is mainly for botanic gardens or warm, humid tropical gardens.

Family
Fabaceae (Pea & bean family)
Grows as
Tree
Light
Part shade, Bright indirect
Water
Keep soil evenly moist during growth and reduce slightly in cooler months.
Soil
Free-draining, fertile, humus-rich loam or a peaty mix.
Temperature
22–32 °C; protect below 15 °C
How easy
Hard
Native range
Sri Lanka
Climate
wet tropical

About

Adenanthera aglaosperma is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae. It is a tree endemic to southwestern Sri Lanka, where it grows in lowland evergreen rain forest.

Other Adenanthera plants

Adenanthera intermedia · Red Sandalwood · Red Sandalwood · Beadtree

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Adenanthera aglaosperma 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.

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