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Dactyladenia hirsuta is a shrub from wet tropical forests of West Africa, native to Ivory Coast and Ghana (the Kew range also cites Liberia). It is rarely grown as an ornamental and is best treated as a wild-habitat species of conservation concern.
Dactyladenia hirsuta is a species of plant in the family Chrysobalanaceae. It is endemic to Ivory Coast and Ghana. Its natural habitats are wet evergreen forests. It is threatened by extensive logging of its habitat, the effects of mining and the establishment of commercial plantations.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Dactyladenia hirsuta 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.
