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Duguetia surinamensis

Duguetia surinamensis
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Duguetia surinamensis is a tropical rainforest tree or occasional shrub from the Amazon and Guianas, growing 10 to 30 m tall in the wild. It is a species that needs warm, humid, shaded forest conditions and is not commonly grown as a garden or houseplant.

Family
Annonaceae (Annon family)
Grows as
Tree, Shrub
Light
Part shade
Water
Keep the soil consistently moist, as it grows in wet lowland rainforest.
Soil
Rich, well-drained, humus-heavy forest-type soil.
Temperature
Warm tropical conditions, roughly 20 to 32 °C; protect from frost and cold below 10 °C.
How easy
Hard
Native range
NE. Colombia to Guianas and N. Peru
Climate
wet tropical

About

Duguetia surinamensis is a species of tree or rarely a shrub native to northern Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Peru, and Suriname. Its native habitat is in lowland tropical rainforests. It can grow to be 10 to 30 m (33 to 98 ft) in height and 40 to 75 cm (16 to 30 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 surinamensis 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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