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Ascarina coursii

Ascarina coursii is a rarely cultivated tree or shrub from the Chloranthaceae family, endemic to Madagascar and found in seasonally dry tropical forest. Little is documented about it in cultivation, so care advice is drawn from its genus and habitat.

Family
Chloranthaceae (Chloranth family)
Light
Bright indirect
Water
Water when the top few centimetres of soil dry out, reducing sharply in the dry season.
Soil
Well-drained, humus-rich potting mix or loamy soil.
Temperature
18–30 °C; protect below 10 °C
Native range
Madagascar
Climate
seasonally dry tropical

About

Ascarina coursii is a species of plant native to Madagascar. Within the genus Ascarina, there are about a dozen accepted species; A. coursii is the only one endemic to Madagascar. Its habitat is a "seasonally dry tropical biome".

Other Ascarina plants

Ascarina diffusa · Hutu · Ascarina philippinensis · Ascarina

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Ascarina coursii 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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