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Damburneya rudis

Damburneya rudis is a tree in the laurel family (Lauraceae) native to montane rain forests of Central America and Chiapas, Mexico, at 1,600 to 2,500 m. It is a forest tree rather than a common garden or houseplant, so care guidance below is general and approximate.

Family
Lauraceae (Laurel family)
Grows as
Tree
Light
Part shade, Bright indirect
Water
Keep the soil evenly moist during growth and avoid waterlogging.
Soil
Well-drained, humus-rich, slightly acidic forest-type mix.
Temperature
15–24 °C; protect below 5 °C
How easy
Hard
Native range
Mexico (Chiapas) to Honduras
Climate
wet tropical

About

Damburneya rudis is a species of flowering plant in the family Lauraceae. It is a tree native to El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, and the Mexican state of Chiapas. It is native to montane rain forest from 1,600 to 2,500 metres elevation.

Other Damburneya plants

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

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Damburneya rudis 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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