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Fusaea peruviana

Fusaea peruviana is a tree in the custard apple family (Annonaceae), native to wet tropical forests of Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador and Peru, reaching about 15 m tall. It is a forest species rarely grown in gardens, so care is based on its tropical forest habitat.

Family
Annonaceae (Annon family)
Grows as
Tree, Shrub
Light
Part shade
Water
Keep soil consistently moist but not waterlogged, as in its native wet tropical forest.
Soil
Rich, well-drained loamy soil with plenty of organic matter.
Temperature
20–30 °C; protect below 10 °C
How easy
Hard
Native range
SE. Colombia to N. Peru
Climate
wet tropical

About

Fusaea peruviana is a species of plant in the family Annonaceae. It is native to Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador and Peru. Robert Elias Fries, the Swedish botanist who first formally described the species, named it after Peru where the specimen he examined was found near the Huallaga River and the city of Yurimaguas.

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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Fusaea peruviana 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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