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Grewia mollis is a shrub or small tree from tropical Africa and southern Arabia, grown mainly in seasonally dry areas. It is valued locally as a source of edible gum; treat it as an outdoor plant suited to warm, dry climates.
Grewia mollis is a widespread species of flowering plant in the family Malvaceae, native to tropical Africa, Yemen and Oman. It is the source of grewia gum, an edible polysaccharide mucilage, similar in its properties to tragacanth gum.
It can be affected by a smut fungi, called Pericladium grewiae Pass., which was found on a plant in Eritrea.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Grewia mollis 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.
