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Aspidosperma olivaceum

Aspidosperma olivaceum
Photo: Fabrício Mil Homens Riella, CC BY 4.0

Aspidosperma olivaceum is a large timber tree of the Dogbane family, native to southeast Brazil and found in Atlantic Forest, Cerrado and Pantanal vegetation. It is grown mainly for its wood and as a forest tree rather than as a garden or houseplant.

Family
Apocynaceae (Dogbane family)
Grows as
Tree
Light
Full sun
Temperature
Warm tropical conditions; frost-intolerant
How easy
Hard
Native range
SE. Brazil
Climate
wet tropical

About

Aspidosperma olivaceum is a timber tree native to Southeast Brazil. It is common in Atlantic Forest, Cerrado, Caatinga, and Pantanal vegetation.

Other Aspidosperma plants

Aspidosperma australe · Aspidosperma cylindrocarpon · Aspidosperma darienense · Aspidosperma discolor · Aspidosperma excelsum · Aspidosperma macrocarpon · Aspidosperma megalocarpon · Aspidosperma myristicifolium · Aspidosperma parvifolium · Red Peroba · Aspidosperma pyricollum · Aspidosperma pyrifolium

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Aspidosperma olivaceum 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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