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Annona stenophylla

Annona stenophylla
Photo: i_c_riddell, CC BY 4.0

Annona stenophylla is a small bush of seasonally dry woodland in Tanzania and Zambia, grown mainly as a botanical curiosity. It is rarely cultivated, so care details below are general guidance for its genus.

Family
Annonaceae (Annon family)
Grows as
Shrub
Light
Full sun
Water
Water moderately in the growing season and let the soil dry out between waterings, cutting back in the dry season.
Soil
Free-draining sandy or loamy soil.
Temperature
18–30 °C; protect below 10 °C
How easy
Moderate
Native range
W. Tanzania to Zambia
Climate
seasonally dry tropical

About

Annona stenophylla is a species of plant in the family Annonaceae. It is native to Tanzania and Zambia. Adolf Engler and Ludwig Diels, the German botanists who first formally described the species, named it after its narrow leaves (Latinized forms of Greek στενός, stenós, and φύλλον, phúllon).

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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Annona stenophylla 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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