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Boehmeria depauperata is a shrub or small tree of the nettle family, native to wet tropical and subtropical Asia. It is a forest understorey plant, so it does best with filtered light, steady moisture and warm conditions.
Boehmeria depauperata, synonyms including Boehmeria glomerulifera and the illegitimate name Boehmeria malabarica, is a shrub or tree in the family Urticaceae, native to China (southern Yunnan and south-western Guangxi), Tibet, and tropical Asia. It is sometimes known as the Malabar tree nettle.
Boehmeria depauperata is native to southeast and south-central China, Tibet and tropical Asia (the Andaman Islands, the Assam region, Bangladesh, Borneo, the eastern Himalayas, India, Java, Laos, Peninsular Malaysia, the Maluku Islands, Myanmar, Nepal, New Guinea, the Philippines, the Solomon Islands, Sri Lanka, Sulawesi, Sumatra, Thailand, and Vietnam). The species grows in undergrowth in subtropical evergreen and semi-evergreen forest up to elevations of 1400 m.
Smallspike false nettle · Hawai'i false nettle · Large Leaf Falsenettle · Boehmeria virgata subsp. macrophylla · Chinese grass · Boehmeria ramiflora · Native Ramie · False nettle
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Boehmeria depauperata 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.
