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Homonoia riparia
Homonoia riparia is a 1 to 3 metre evergreen shrub from wet tropical and subtropical Asia, found on river banks, flooded plains and in mangrove edges. It needs constantly moist soil and is best suited to waterside or bog-style planting.
Homonoia riparia is a species of flowering plant in the spurge family, Euphorbiaceae.
It is a mangrove species that is native to the Andaman Islands, Assam, Bangladesh, Borneo, Cambodia, South-Central and Southeast China, Himalaya, Hainan, India, Indonesia, Java, Laos, the Lesser Sunda Islands, Malaysia, Myanmar, New Guinea, the Nicobar Islands, the Philippines, Sri Lanka, Taiwan, Thailand and Vietnam. It is grows in wet soil near river banks and flooded plains.
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Homonoia riparia 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.
