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Garcia nutans
Garcia nutans is a shrub or small tree from seasonally dry tropical Mexico, Central America and northern South America, found in the spurge family. It is rarely grown as a houseplant and is mainly of interest in dry-forest and garden settings, where it needs full sun and well-drained soil.
Garcia nutans is a species of flowering plant in the family Euphorbiaceae. It is a shrub or tree widespread across Mexico from Sinaloa and San Luis Potosí to Chiapas + Yucatán, as well as being native to Central America, Colombia, and Venezuela.
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Garcia nutans 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.
