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Hedyosmum correanum

Hedyosmum correanum is a shrub or small tree from the Chloranthaceae family, endemic to western Panama's montane rain forests at 1,400 to 2,936 m. It is rarely grown in cultivation, so care advice is drawn from its wet, cool, high-elevation habitat.

Family
Chloranthaceae (Chloranth family)
Grows as
Tree, Shrub
Light
Part shade, Bright indirect
Water
Keep the soil evenly moist and avoid letting it dry out completely, as it grows in wet montane forest.
Soil
Well-drained, humus-rich, slightly acidic mix that holds moisture.
Temperature
12–22 °C; protect below 5 °C
How easy
Hard
Native range
Panama
Climate
wet tropical

About

Hedyosmum correanum is a species of flowering plant in the Chloranthaceae family. It is a shrub or small tree endemic to western Panama. It is native to montane rain forest from 1,400 to 2,936 metres elevation, ranging from La Amistad National Park near the Costa Rica border to Cerro Santiago. It is threatened by habitat loss.

Other Hedyosmum plants

Hedyosmum burgerianum · Hedyosmum cumbalense · Hedyosmum mexicanum · Headache Bush · Hedyosmum purpurascens · Hedyosmum racemosum · Hedyosmum

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Hedyosmum correanum 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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