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Brunellia ovalifolia

Brunellia ovalifolia is a tree in the Brunelliaceae family, native to montane forests of Ecuador and Peru. It is a wild forest species rarely grown in cultivation, so care advice is limited.

Family
Brunelliaceae (Brunelli family)
Grows as
Tree
Temperature
Wet tropical montane climate; cool-to-mild highland conditions, frost-intolerant
Native range
Ecuador to Peru
Climate
wet tropical

About

Brunellia ovalifolia is a species of plant in the Brunelliaceae family. It is endemic to Ecuador. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist montane forests and subtropical or tropical high-altitude shrubland. It is threatened by habitat loss.

Other Brunellia plants

Brunellia acostae · Brunellia acutangula · Brunellia almaguerensis · Brunellia antioquensis · Brunellia boqueronensis · Brunellia cayambensis · West Indian Sumac · Brunellia darienensis · Brunellia ecuadoriensis · Brunellia elliptica · Brunellia farallonensis · Brunellia macrophylla

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Brunellia ovalifolia 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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