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Garcinia kurzii

Garcinia kurzii is a small evergreen tree from the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, native to wet tropical rainforest. It is a forest tree rather than a common garden or houseplant, and is threatened by habitat loss.

Family
Clusiaceae (Clusi family)
Grows as
Tree
Light
Part shade, Bright indirect
Water
Keep the soil evenly moist during growth and avoid waterlogging.
Soil
Well-drained, humus-rich, slightly acidic mix.
Temperature
22–32 °C; protect below 15 °C.
How easy
Hard
Native range
Andaman and Nicobar Is.
Climate
wet tropical

About

Garcinia kingii is a species of flowering plant in the family Clusiaceae. It is a tree native to the Andaman and Nicobar islands. It is a small tree which grows in evergreen rain forest. It is threatened by habitat loss.

The species was described by Jean Baptiste Louis Pierre in 1883. Garcinia kingii Pierre ex Vesque is a synonym.

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 kurzii 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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