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Alangium chinense is a shrub or small tree in the dogwood family, native across Africa and tropical and subtropical Asia, and it is not usually grown as a garden plant. It thrives in warm, seasonally dry conditions with good light and moderate water.
Alangium chinense is a species of flowering plant in the family Cornaceae. It has the Chinese name (Chinese: 八角枫; pinyin: bā jiǎo fēng).
It is native to Angola, Assam, Bangladesh, Burundi, Cabinda, Cambodia, Cameroon, China, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ethiopia, Gulf of Guinea islands, Himalaya, India, Java, Kenya, Laos, the Lesser Sunda Islands, Malawi, Mozambique, Nepal, the Philippines, Rwanda, South Sudan, Sudan, Taiwan, Tanzania, Thailand, Tibet, Uganda, Vietnam, Zambia, and Zimbabwe.
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Alangium chinense 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.
