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Celtis mauritiana
Wight's Hackberry is a tropical African and western Indian Ocean tree in the hemp family, grown mainly for shade, fruit and timber. It is a tree species, not a common houseplant, and needs warm, frost-free conditions to thrive.
Celtis mauritiana is a species of flowering plant native to Sub-Saharan Africa, Madagascar, the Comoro Islands, and Mauritius.
Celtis mauritiana ranges across much of Sub-Saharan Africa, from Senegal in the west to Ethiopia in the east, and south to Mozambique and Angola. It is also native to Madagascar, the Comoro Islands, and Mauritius in the western Indian Ocean.
Celtis adolfi-friderici · 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
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Celtis mauritiana 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.
