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Anthocleista scandens is a scrambling or climbing tree from the gentian family, native to wet lowland and montane forests of West and Central Africa. It is rarely grown in gardens, so care is mostly inferred from its tropical forest habitat.
Anthocleista scandens is a species of plant in the family Gentianaceae. It is found in Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea, Nigeria, and São Tomé and Príncipe. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests and subtropical or tropical moist montane forests. It is threatened by habitat loss.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Anthocleista scandens 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.
