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Guarea crispa

Guarea crispa is a tree from the lowland Amazon rainforest of Amazonas state in northern Brazil, rarely grown outside its native range. It is not a practical houseplant or garden subject, so care depends on tropical forest conditions.

Family
Meliaceae (Meli family)
Grows as
Tree
Light
Part shade
Water
Keep the root zone consistently moist in its native wet tropical climate.
Soil
Rich, well-drained forest soils, typically humus-rich lowland terre firme soils.
Temperature
Warm tropical conditions year-round; protect from frost and cold below about 10 °C.
Native range
Brazil (Amazonas)
Climate
wet tropical

About

Guarea crispa is a species of flowering plant in the family Meliaceae. It is a tree endemic to Amazonas state in northern Brazil. It grows in lowland terre firme Amazon rainforest. It is threatened by habitat loss.

Other Guarea plants

Guarea carapoides · Guarea cartaguenya · Guarea casimiriana · Guarea caulobotrys · Guarea convergens · Guarea corrugata · Guarea cristata · Guarea guentheri · American muskwood · Guarea hoffmanniana · Guarea humaitensis · Guarea jamaicensis

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Guarea crispa 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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