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Goniothalamus cheliensis

Goniothalamus cheliensis
Photo: Raffi Kojian, CC BY-SA 3.0

Goniothalamus cheliensis is a tropical shrub or small tree in the custard apple family, native to southern China, Laos, Myanmar and Thailand, with large leaves and large flowers. It is a wild forest species rarely grown in gardens, so care notes are general and it needs warm, humid, frost-free conditions.

Family
Annonaceae (Annon family)
Grows as
Tree, Shrub
Light
Part shade
Water
Keep the soil evenly moist during growth and let the top layer dry slightly between waterings.
Soil
Free-draining, humus-rich, slightly acidic mix.
Temperature
20–30 °C; protect below 10 °C
How easy
Hard
Native range
China (S. Yunnan) to N. Indo-China
Climate
wet tropical

About

Goniothalamus cheliensis is a species of flowering plant in the Annonaceae family. It is native to southern Yunnan Province of south-central China, and Laos, Myanmar, and Thailand in northern Indochina. Bioactive molecules isolated from its roots have been reported to have cytotoxic activity in tests with cultured human cancer cells.

Other Goniothalamus plants

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

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Goniothalamus cheliensis 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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