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Ehretia cymosa

Ehretia cymosa
Photo: Tonton Bernardo, CC BY-SA 3.0

Ehretia cymosa is a small tree from tropical Africa and the western Indian Ocean, grown mainly for its shade and fruit. It does best in a warm, seasonally dry climate with good drainage.

Family
Ehretiaceae (Ehreti family)
Grows as
Tree
Light
Full sun, Part shade
Water
Water deeply when the top of the soil dries out, and less during the dry season.
Soil
Well-drained loam or sandy soil.
Temperature
18–32 °C; protect below 10 °C
How easy
Easy
Native range
W. Trop. Africa to Eritrea and Uganda, W. Indian Ocean, Arabian Pen.
Climate
seasonally dry tropical

About

Ehretia cymosa is a small tree belonging to the family Ehretiaceae. It occurs over a wide range of habitat throughout of western, central and eastern Africa, including Benin, Côte d'Ivoire, Cameroon, Ethiopia, Kenya, Comoros, Madagascar, Mascarenes, Zimbabwe and Mozambique.

Other Ehretia plants

Scorpionbush · Puzzle Bush · Native Willow · Rotula aquatica

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Ehretia cymosa 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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