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Alphonsea hainanensis is a tall evergreen forest tree of the custard apple family, native to southern China and northern Vietnam, where it grows on hillsides in lowland tropical forest. It is not a common garden or houseplant, so care is mainly relevant to botanic gardens or warm frost-free climates.
Alphonsea hainanensis is a species of flowering plant in the Annonaceae family. It is a tree native to Vietnam and to Yunnan, southwestern Guangxi, and Hainan in southern China. It is an evergreen tree which grows up to 20 meters tall. It is native to subtropical and tropical lowland evergreen broadleaf forests, where it grows on hillsides from 400 to 700 meters elevation.
The species was first described by Elmer Drew Merrill and Woon Young Chun in 1940.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Alphonsea hainanensis 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.
