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Cinnamomum walaiwarense is a critically endangered tree in the laurel family, growing up to 15 metres in the wet evergreen forests of the southern Western Ghats of India. It is not a garden or houseplant, and it is hard to cultivate outside its native montane forest.
Cinnamomum walaiwarense is a critically endangered species in the family Lauraceae. It is a tree which grows up to 15 metres high and is endemic to the southern Western Ghats of Kerala and Tamil Nadu in southwestern India. It grows in montane wet evergreen forest from 800 to 1,500 metres elevation.
The species was described by André Joseph Guillaume Henri Kostermans in 1985.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Cinnamomum walaiwarense 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.
