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Celtis adolfi-friderici

Celtis adolfi-friderici, known as diania, is a very large forest tree from wet tropical West and central Africa that can reach about 55 m. It is rarely grown as a garden plant, so care notes apply mainly to young trees in tropical conditions.

Family
Cannabaceae (Hemp family)
Grows as
Tree
Light
Part shade, Bright indirect
Water
Keep soil evenly moist during the growing season and avoid waterlogging.
Soil
Fertile, well-drained loam or forest-type humus-rich mix.
Temperature
20–30 °C; protect below 10 °C
How easy
Hard
Native range
W. Trop. Africa to SW. Uganda
Climate
wet tropical

About

Celtis adolfi-friderici, the diania, is a widespread species of flowering plant in the family Cannabaceae. It is native to west and west-central wet tropical Africa. A large tree reaching 55 m (180 ft), it is found in a variety of forest types at elevations from 600 to 1,200 m (2,000 to 3,900 ft). It has been assessed as Least Concern.

Other Celtis plants

White stinkwood · Nettle Tree · Celtis balansae · Biond’s Hackberry · Celtis brasiliensis · Bunge's hackberry · Caucasian hackberry · Celtis conferta subsp. amblyphylla · Cottonwood · Spiny hackberry · Celtis glabrata · Celtis gomphophylla

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Celtis adolfi-friderici 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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