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Anonidium usambarense is a tall tree in the custard apple family (Annonaceae), known only from a single 1910 specimen in Tanzania's Usambara Mountains and considered extinct in the wild. Because it is not in cultivation, care advice is limited.
Anonidium usambarense was a tall tree in the family Annonaceae, formerly endemic to Tanzania. A single specimen was collected in 1910 at Amani in the Usambara mountains, at an elevation of 900m. In spite of intensive field work in the region looking specifically for this species, no other examples were found and it was declared extinct in 1998. The causes for its disappearance were the timber industry and the desire to expand agricultural land.
It is currently declared as 'data deficient' due to confusion about the type specimen.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Anonidium usambarense 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.
