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Couma macrocarpa is a tropical tree from humid Central and South America, grown in the Peruvian Amazon for its latex. It needs a hot, humid climate with good drainage and fertile soil, and is not a houseplant.
Couma macrocarpa, known by the common names avichure, leche caspi, leche huayo, sorva (a name it shares with its smaller relative Couma utilis), and cow tree, is a species of tropical plant native to tropical, humid Central and South America from Belize to Bolivia.
Ideal environmental conditions for Couma macrocarpa are:
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Couma macrocarpa 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.
