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Goniothalamus undulatus

Goniothalamus undulatus is a small shrub or tree in the custard apple family, native to southern Myanmar and peninsular Thailand. It is rarely grown in gardens, so it is known mainly from the wild, and it needs warm, humid, shaded forest-like conditions.

Family
Annonaceae (Annon family)
Grows as
Tree, Shrub
Light
Part shade, Shade
Water
Keep the soil evenly moist during growth and avoid waterlogging.
Soil
Well-drained, humus-rich forest-type soil or a peaty potting mix.
Temperature
20–32 °C; protect below 15 °C
How easy
Hard
Native range
S. Myanmar to Pen. Thailand
Climate
wet tropical

About

Goniothalamus undulatus is a species of flowering plant in the family Annonaceae. It is a shrub or tree native to Peninsular Thailand and southern Myanmar. Henry Nicholas Ridley, the English botanist who first formally described the species, named it after the wavy (undulatus in Latin) edges of its leaves.

Where it grows

It has been observed growing in evergreen forests at elevations of 50 to 700 meters (160 to 2,300 ft).

Uses

Bioactive molecules extracted from its roots have been reported to be cytotoxic in tests with cultured human cancer cell lines.

Other Goniothalamus plants

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

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Goniothalamus undulatus 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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