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Grewia bilocularis

Grewia bilocularis is a shrub or small tree endemic to the arid island of Socotra, Yemen, and is not a commonly grown garden or houseplant. Care needs are best inferred from its desert-dry native habitat.

Family
Malvaceae (Mallow family)
Grows as
Tree, Shrub
Light
Full sun
Water
Water sparingly and let the soil dry out fully between waterings; it is adapted to very dry conditions.
Soil
Free-draining sandy or gritty mix; avoid waterlogging.
Temperature
18–35 °C; protect below 10 °C
How easy
Hard
Native range
Socotra
Climate
desert or dry shrubland

About

Grewia bilocularis is a species of flowering plant in the family Malvaceae sensu lato or Tiliaceae or Sparrmanniaceae.

It is endemic to the island of Socotra in Yemen.

Other Grewia plants

Grewia aldabrensis · Phalsa · White raisin · Grewia bulot · Grewia emarginata · Grewia ferruginea · Brandy Bush · Donkey Berry · Grewia glandulosa · Grewia goetzeana · Giant raisin · Grewia hirsuta

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Grewia bilocularis 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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