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Ardisia costaricensis is a tropical shrub from Central America that grows in lowland and montane rainforest. It is rarely grown outside its native range, so most care needs are inferred from its wet tropical habitat.
Ardisia costaricensis is a species of flowering plant in the family Primulaceae. It is a shrub native to Costa Rica, Honduras, Nicaragua, and Panama in Central America, where it grows in lowland and montane tropical rain forests. The IUCN Red List assesses the species as Least Concern.
The species was first described in 1942 by Cyrus Longworth Lundell.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Ardisia costaricensis 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.
