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Heisteria asplundii

Heisteria asplundii is a tree from the wet tropical forests of Ecuador, where it is endemic and rarely grown outside its native range. Little cultivation information exists, so it is mainly of interest to botanists and conservationists.

Family
Erythropalaceae (Erythropal family)
Grows as
Tree
Temperature
Wet tropical climate; not known to tolerate cold
Native range
Ecuador
Climate
wet tropical

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Heisteria asplundii is a species of plant in the family Olacaceae. It is endemic to Ecuador.

Other Heisteria plants

Heisteria cyathiformis · Heisteria maguirei · Heisteria pallida · Vascular Plants

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Heisteria asplundii 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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