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Chionanthus cordulatus is a shrub or small tree of lowland tropical forest in Borneo and Sulawesi, reaching up to 15 metres. It is rarely grown outside its native range and is not a common garden plant, so care depends on warm, humid, frost-free conditions.
Chionanthus cordulatus is a species of flowering plant in the family Oleaceae. It grows as a shrub or small tree up to 15 metres (49 ft) tall, with a trunk diameter of up to 30 centimetres (12 in). Bark is greenish. The flowers are white or yellowish green. Fruit is greyish green and round, up to 2.5 centimetres (0.98 in) in diameter. Habitat is lowland forest from sea-level to 930 metres (3,050 ft) elevation. C. cordulatus is found in Malaysia (Sabah) and Indonesia (Sulawesi).
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Chionanthus cordulatus 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.
