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Cassipourea lanceolata

Cassipourea lanceolata is a shrub or small tree from the Rhizophoraceae family, native to Aldabra, the Comoros and northwestern Madagascar. It grows in dry to humid forest on sandy, lateritic and limestone soils, and is rarely cultivated, so care information is limited.

Family
Rhizophoraceae (Rhizophor family)
Grows as
Tree, Shrub
Light
Bright indirect, Part shade
Water
Water regularly while establishing, then let the top of the soil dry between waterings, since it comes from seasonally dry forest.
Soil
Well-drained sandy or loamy mix; tolerates limestone-based and lateritic soils.
Temperature
18–32 °C; protect below 10 °C
How easy
Moderate
Native range
Comoros, Aldabra, NW. Madagascar
Climate
seasonally dry tropical

About

Cassipourea lanceolata is a species of flowering plant in the Rhizophoraceae family. It is a shrub or tree native to Aldabra, the Comoros, and northwestern Madagascar. It grows in humid, subhumid, and dry forests on sandy, ferralitic, and limestone (including tsingy) substrates up to 1000 meters elevation.

Other Cassipourea plants

Cassipourea brittoniana · Cassipourea congoensis · Cassipourea dinklagei · Cassipourea eketensis · Cassipourea fanshawei · Small Leaved Bastard Onionwood · Cassipourea hiotou · African Onionwood · Cassipourea obovata · Cassipourea subcordata · Cassipourea subsessilis · Cassipourea swaziensis

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Cassipourea lanceolata 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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