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Garcinia jensenii

Garcinia jensenii is a rainforest tree from northern Queensland, described in 2013 and not commonly cultivated. It is best grown in warm, humid, shaded conditions like its native forest understorey.

Family
Clusiaceae (Clusi family)
Light
Part shade, Bright indirect
Water
Keep the soil evenly moist and never waterlogged, watering more in the growing season.
Soil
Free-draining, humus-rich mix with peat or leaf mould.
Temperature
20–30 °C; protect below 15 °C
How easy
Hard
Native range
Queensland
Climate
wet tropical

About

Garcinia jensenii is a species of plant in the family Clusiaceae, first described in 2013 by Australian botanist Wendy Elizabeth Cooper. It is native to Cape York Peninsula and islands of the Torres Strait, Queensland, Australia. It inhabits well-developed rainforest and gallery forest at attitudes up to 500 m (1,600 ft).

Other Garcinia plants

Garcinia acuminata · Garcinia acutifolia · Bitter Kola · Garcinia aristata · Garcinia assamica · Garcinia atroviridis · Garcinia benthamiana · Garcinia bifasciculata · Garcinia binucao · Garcinia brasiliensis · Garcinia brassii · Garcinia brevirostris

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Garcinia jensenii 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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