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Damburneya guatemalensis

Damburneya guatemalensis is a tree or shrub of up to 8 m in the laurel family, known only from Guatemala where it grows in tall broadleaf forest. It is a wild forest species with little or no cultivation history, so there is little practical care guidance.

Family
Lauraceae (Laurel family)
Grows as
Tree, Shrub
Temperature
Wet tropical climate; likely frost-intolerant
Native range
Guatemala
Climate
wet tropical

About

Damburneya guatemalensis is a plant species in the family Lauraceae. It is endemic to Guatemala where it has only been found in the departments of Petén, Alta Verapaz and Izabal. It is a tree or shrub of up to 8 m that grows in tall broadleaf forest in association with Orbignya species.

Other Damburneya plants

Damburneya parvissima · Damburneya bicolor · Damburneya cufodontisii · Damburneya leucocome · Damburneya longipetiolata · Damburneya matudae · Damburneya minima · Damburneya roberto-andinoi · Damburneya rudis · Damburneya salicina · Damburneya smithii · Damburneya

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Damburneya guatemalensis 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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