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Faurea rochetiana
Also called Broad Leaved Beechwood, African Beech, Broad Leaf Beechwood, Broad Leaved Boekenhout, Broadleaf Beechwood, Large Leaf Beechwood, Large Leaved Beechwood
Faurea rochetiana is a small, leafy tree from the Protea family, native across much of tropical and southern Africa from Sudan south to Limpopo, Mpumalanga and northern KwaZulu-Natal. It is a wild woodland species rather than a common garden plant, and it is grown mainly for its shade and its place in African bushveld.
Faurea rochetiana, also known as the broad-leaved beechwood, is a tree found in much of Africa from Sudan south to Limpopo, Mpumalanga and northern KwaZulu-Natal. The tree is small and leafy. It has wider leaves, larger flowers and flower veins and also denser hairy twigs than the bushveld beechwood. The tree's national number is 76.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Faurea rochetiana 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.
