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Apeiba albiflora

Apeiba albiflora
Photo: Alex Popovkin, Bahia, Brazil from Brazil, CC BY 2.0

Apeiba albiflora is a tree from the Amazon rainforest of northern South America, used in traditional medicine. It is a large forest tree that needs warm, humid, wet tropical conditions and is not commonly grown as an ornamental.

Family
Malvaceae (Mallow family)
Grows as
Tree
Light
Bright indirect
Water
Keep the soil consistently moist, as it grows in wet tropical forest.
Soil
Rich, moist, well-drained forest soil or a humus-rich mix.
Temperature
Warm tropical conditions, roughly 20-32 °C; protect from frost.
How easy
Hard
Native range
N. South America to Brazil
Climate
wet tropical

About

Apeiba albiflora is a tree which is often used as medicinal plant native to Amazon rainforest vegetation in Brazil, French Guiana, Guyana, and Suriname.

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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Apeiba albiflora 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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