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Guioa normanbiensis

Guioa normanbiensis
Photo: The Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, CC BY 4.0

Guioa normanbiensis is a small rainforest tree from Normanby Island in Papua New Guinea, usually about 7 metres tall. It is rarely grown outside its native range, so care guidance is limited to what suits a wet tropical lowland tree.

Family
Sapindaceae (Soapberry & maple family)
Grows as
Tree
Light
Part shade
Water
Keep the soil consistently moist while young and water regularly in dry spells.
Soil
Well-drained, fertile, humus-rich soil.
Temperature
22–32 °C; protect below 15 °C
How easy
Hard
Native range
New Guinea (Louisiade Arch.)
Climate
wet tropical

About

Guioa normanbiensis is a species of flowering plant in the family Sapindaceae. It is a tree endemic to Normanby Island in the Louisiade Archipelago of eastern Papua New Guinea. It is typically a small tree of about 7 metres but can grow up to 20 metres tall. It is native to lowland rain forest, typically growing along gullies from sea level up to 200 metres elevation.

Other Guioa plants

Guioa acuminata · Glossy Tamarind · Guioa asquamosa · Guioa bicolor · Guioa comesperma · Guioa coriacea · Guioa discolor · Guioa grandifoliola · Guioa hospita · Silky tamarind · Guioa malukuensis · Guioa melanopoda

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Guioa normanbiensis 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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