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Ardisia sonchifolia is a small shrub from the wet forests of the southern Western Ghats in India, rarely grown outside its native range. It is a shade-loving understory plant that needs humid, warm, sheltered conditions.
Ardisia sonchifolia is a species of plant in the family Primulaceae. It is a shrub endemic to Kerala in southern India. It is native to the Anamalai range of the southern Western Ghats, where it grows in submontane forest.
The species was first described by Carl Christian Mez in 1902.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Ardisia sonchifolia 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.
