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Casearia yucatanensis

Casearia yucatanensis
Photo: Gaiacoyote, CC0

Casearia yucatanensis is a shrub or tree up to about 12 m tall from the Yucatán Peninsula of southeastern Mexico, a wet tropical species with little cultivation history. It is grown mainly as a tropical forest or garden tree rather than a common ornamental.

Family
Salicaceae (Willow family)
Grows as
Tree
Light
Part shade, Bright indirect
Water
Keep the soil evenly moist during the growing season and reduce watering in the dry season.
Soil
Well-drained, fertile loam or forest-type soil.
Temperature
20–32 °C; protect below 10 °C
How easy
Moderate
Native range
SE. Mexico
Climate
wet tropical

About

Casearia yucatanensis, with no commonly used English name, is a species of flowering plant belonging to the family Salicaceae.

Where it grows

Casearia yucatanensis is endemic just to the southeastern Mexican states of Yucatán, Quintana Roo and Campeche.

Other Casearia plants

Casearia albicans · Casearia atlantica · Casearia barteri · Casearia bartlettii · Casearia coriifolia · Casearia crassinervis · Casearia engleri · Casearia flavovirens · Casearia flexula · Casearia gladiiformis · Casearia graveolens · Casearia kaalaensis

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Casearia yucatanensis 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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