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Duguetia flagellaris

Duguetia flagellaris
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Duguetia flagellaris is a small South American shrub in the custard apple family (Annonaceae), native to wet tropical forests and rarely grown as an ornamental. Its main care need is warm, humid, shaded or partly shaded conditions similar to its native habitat.

Family
Annonaceae (Annon family)
Grows as
Shrub
Light
Part shade, Bright indirect
Water
Keep the soil evenly moist and never waterlogged, watering more in the growing season.
Soil
Well-drained, humus-rich, slightly acidic potting mix or forest-type soil.
Temperature
18-30 °C; protect below 10 °C
How easy
Moderate
Native range
S. Trop. America
Climate
wet tropical

About

Duguetia flagellaris is a species of small, flowering shrub. It is native to northern, northeastern, southeastern, and west-central Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, French Guiana, Peru, Venezuela, and Bolivia. It grows to be 1.5 to 10 m (5 to 33 ft) tall and 2 to 10 cm (0.8 to 3.9 in) in diameter.

Other Duguetia plants

Duguetia aberrans · Duguetia amplexifolia · Duguetia antioquensis · Duguetia arenicola · Duguetia argentea · Duguetia aripuanae · Duguetia asterotricha · Duguetia bahiensis · Duguetia barteri · Duguetia cadaverica · Duguetia calycina · Duguetia caniflora

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Duguetia flagellaris 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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