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Diclinanona calycina

Diclinanona calycina
Photo: National Museum of Natural History, CC0

Diclinanona calycina is a tree in the Annonaceae (custard apple) family, native to wet tropical forests of northern South America, reaching up to 30 m tall. It is a forest timber and wild-collected species rarely grown in gardens, so care is largely unknown.

Family
Annonaceae (Annon family)
Grows as
Tree
Light
Part shade
Water
Keep soil consistently moist but not waterlogged, as it grows in wet tropical forest.
Soil
Well-drained, humus-rich forest soil.
Temperature
Warm tropical conditions, roughly 20-30 °C; protect from frost.
Native range
S. Venezuela to N. Peru
Climate
wet tropical

About

Diclinanona calycina is a species of flowering plant in the family Annonaceae. It is a tree native to northern Brazil, Colombia, northern Peru, and Venezuela. Ludwig Diels, the German botanist who first formally described the species using the basionym Xylopia calycina, named it after its well-developed calyx (calycinus in Latin).

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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Diclinanona calycina 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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