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Ayenia sparrei is a small shrub in the mallow family (Malvaceae), known in the wild from a single location in the dry Andes of southern Ecuador. Almost nothing is documented about cultivation, so care advice is limited and should be treated as a rough guide.
Ayenia sparrei is a species of flowering plant in the family Malvaceae. It a shrub found only in Ecuador.
Ayenia sparriei is known only from single location, on the dry slopes along the Río Comunidades, between Vilcabamba and Yangana in the Andes of southern Ecuador at 1600 meters elevation. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical dry shrubland.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Ayenia sparrei 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.
