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Amphirrhox grandifolia

Amphirrhox grandifolia
Photo: TUBS, CC BY-SA 3.0

Amphirrhox grandifolia is a little-known shrub from the violet family, native to Bahia in northeast Brazil. It is rarely cultivated, so care advice is limited and mostly inferred from its seasonally dry tropical habitat.

Family
Violaceae (Violet family)
Light
Full sun, Part shade
Water
Water when the top few centimetres of soil dry out, and reduce watering in the cooler, drier season.
Soil
Free-draining, fertile mix with added organic matter.
Temperature
18–30 °C; protect below 10 °C
How easy
Moderate
Native range
Brazil (Bahia)
Climate
seasonally dry tropical

About

Amphirrhox grandifolia is a species of plant in the family Violaceae. It's native range is the Northeast Brazil region.

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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Amphirrhox grandifolia 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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