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Didymopanax macrocarpus

Didymopanax macrocarpus
Photo: João Arthur Rabello (https://www.inaturalist.org/people/joao_rabello), CC BY 4.0

Didymopanax macrocarpus is a small tree or treelet of the Brazilian Cerrado, native to central and eastern Brazil, typically 0.5 to 5 m tall. It is rarely grown as an ornamental and has little cultivation guidance, so care advice below is general and should be treated as a starting point.

Family
Araliaceae (Ivy family)
Grows as
Tree
Light
Full sun
Water
Water deeply during the dry season and let the soil dry between waterings, as it is adapted to seasonally dry climates.
Soil
Well-drained, sandy or loamy soil; tolerates poor, acidic Cerrado-type soils.
Temperature
18–35 °C; protect below 10 °C
How easy
Moderate
Native range
C. & E. Brazil
Climate
seasonally dry tropical

About

Didymopanax macrocarpus is a tree and grows primarily in the seasonally dry tropical biome. It is native to the central and eastern Brazil.

Where it grows

Didymopanax macrocarpus is common in the eastern region of Brazilian Cerrado. It can be found in the states of Bahia, Goiás, eastern Mato Grosso, Minas Gerais, São Paulo, and the Distrito Federal.

Other Didymopanax plants

Didymopanax cordatus · Matchwood · Didymopanax

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Didymopanax macrocarpus 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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