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Geniostoma rapense

Geniostoma rapense is a small shrub in the Loganiaceae family, native only to Rapa Iti in French Polynesia. It is a rare, island-restricted species with little cultivation history, so care is best matched to a warm, humid tropical forest understorey.

Family
Loganiaceae (Logani family)
Grows as
Shrub
Light
Part shade, Bright indirect
Water
Keep the soil evenly moist during the growing season and let the top layer dry slightly between waterings.
Soil
Rich, well-drained humus-rich mix with leaf litter or peat.
Temperature
20–30 °C; protect below 15 °C
How easy
Hard
Native range
Tubuai Is. (Rapa Iti)
Climate
wet tropical

About

Geniostoma rapense is a species of plant in the Loganiaceae family. It is a shrub endemic to the island of Rapa Iti in the Tubuai Islands of French Polynesia.

Other Geniostoma plants

Kamakahala · Geniostoma gagnae · Kamakahala · Hutton's Geniostoma · Geniostoma kaalae · Geniostoma lydgatei · Geniostoma macrophyllum · Geniostoma petiolosum · Geniostoma pumilum · Geniostoma rupestre var. glaberrimum · Hangehange · Geniostoma rupestre

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Geniostoma rapense 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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