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Crudia zeylanica is a rare tree in the pea and bean family, native to Sri Lanka and possibly Indo-China, and was once thought extinct before being rediscovered in 2019. Its known wild population has been very small, so it is grown mainly by specialists and botanic gardens, with care based on general knowledge of tropical trees.
Crudia zeylanica sometimes known as Sri Lanka legume, is a species of plant in the family Fabaceae endemic to Sri Lanka. Once thought to be extinct, the plant was rediscovered in 2019. The Crudia zeylanica specimen located in the Daraluwa area in Gampaha, was cut down on Tuesday 11 July 2023, what had once been described as the world´s only known wild specimen of a species of legume, part of ongoing construction of a four-lane expressway.
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Crudia zeylanica 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.
