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Goniothalamus calvicarpus

Goniothalamus calvicarpus
Photo: Photographer Hong-B0 Ding in article by Bin Yang, Ren-Bin Zhu, Hong-Bo Ding, Somsanith Bouamanivong, and Yun-Hong Tan, CC BY 4.0

Goniothalamus calvicarpus is a small tree of the custard apple family (Annonaceae), native to southern China, Laos and Thailand, usually found near streams in forest at moderate elevations. It is a forest understorey tree rather than a garden plant, and is best grown in a warm, humid, shaded or part-shaded spot with consistently moist soil.

Family
Annonaceae (Annon family)
Grows as
Tree, Shrub
Light
Part shade, Shade
Water
Keep soil consistently moist but not waterlogged, as it grows beside streams in the wild.
Soil
Humus-rich, free-draining but moisture-retentive forest-type soil.
Temperature
18–30 °C; protect below 10 °C
How easy
Hard
Native range
China (S. Yunnan) to N. Indo-China
Climate
wet tropical

About

Goniothalamus calvicarpus is a species of plant in the family Annonaceae. It is native to China, Laos and Thailand. William Grant Craib, the British botanist who first formally described the species, named it after its hairless fruit (calvus and -carpus in Latin).

Where it grows

It has been observed growing near streams with evergreen and deciduous trees at an elevation of 250–1500 meters.

Other Goniothalamus plants

Goniothalamus acehensis · Goniothalamus amuyon · Goniothalamus aurantiacus · China pine · Goniothalamus calycinus · Goniothalamus chartaceus · Goniothalamus cheliensis · Goniothalamus chinensis · Goniothalamus curtisii · Goniothalamus dewildei · Goniothalamus elegans · Goniothalamus expansus

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Goniothalamus calvicarpus 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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