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Exocarpos longifolius is a tropical rainforest plant in the sandalwood family that grows as an epiphytic parasite on other trees in Southeast Asia and New Guinea. It is not a common houseplant, and it is best left to experts or natural habitats rather than home cultivation.
Exocarpos longifolius is a plant in the family Santalaceae that occurs from Vietnam to the Lesser Sunda Islands and New Guinea. It is an epiphytic parasite rainforest plant with unusual flowers, which for a period of time caused it to be classified as a new gymnosperm family in the order Gnetales.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Exocarpos longifolius 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.
