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Cordillera platycalyx is a large forest tree from the Chrysobalan family, the sole species in its genus, native to wet tropical lowland and montane forests in Central and northern South America. It is not a plant grown in home gardens, so care notes apply only to cultivation in very large tropical settings.
Cordillera platycalyx is a species of flowering plant in the family Chrysobalanaceae, and the sole species in genus Cordillera. It is a tree native to Costa Rica, Colombia, Venezuela, and Ecuador. It is a large tree which grows 25 to 35 meters tall, flowers in March, and fruits in March and October. It grows in lowland tropical rain forest and wet or pluvial submontane and montane rain forest from 250 to 2,725 meters elevation.
The species was first described as Couepia platycalyx by José Cuatrecasas in 1950. In 2016 Sothers & Prance placed it in the newly described genus Cordillera as C. platycalyx.
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Cordillera platycalyx 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.
