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Damburneya salicina

Damburneya salicina is a shrub or small tree in the laurel family, native to wet tropical forests of Mexico (Chiapas), Costa Rica and Panama. It is rarely grown in cultivation, so care guidance is limited to general knowledge of wet tropical laurels.

Family
Lauraceae (Laurel family)
Grows as
Tree, Shrub
Light
Part shade, Bright indirect
Water
Keep the soil evenly moist during the growing season and let the top layer dry slightly between waterings.
Soil
Well-drained, humus-rich potting mix or loam.
Temperature
18–29 °C; protect below 10 °C
Native range
Mexico (Chiapas), Costa Rica to Panama
Climate
wet tropical

About

Damburneya salicina is a species of flowering plant in the family Lauraceae. It is a shrub or tree native to Costa Rica and Panama.

Other Damburneya plants

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

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Damburneya salicina 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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