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Croton schiedeanus

Croton schiedeanus is a tropical tree in the spurge family, native from Mexico to tropical South America, and grown mainly in warm, humid frost-free climates. It is rarely grown as a houseplant, so care guidance here is general for a tropical tree.

Family
Euphorbiaceae (Spurge family)
Grows as
Tree
Light
Part shade, Bright indirect
Water
Water when the top few centimetres of soil are dry; avoid waterlogging.
Soil
Well-drained, fertile, loamy potting mix or garden soil.
Temperature
18–30 °C; protect below 10 °C
How easy
Moderate
Native range
Mexico to S. Trop. America
Climate
wet tropical

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Croton schiedeanus is a plant species native from Mexico to tropical South America.

C schiedeanus is known to contain the flavonol ayanin and cis-clerodane diterpenoids.

Other Croton plants

Croton adenophorus · Texabama Croton · Alabama croton · Healing croton · Croton aromaticus · Croton barahonensis · California croton · Hogwort · Croton chilensis · Chittagong Croton · Mexican croton · Cortez's croton

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Croton schiedeanus 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.

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