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Hyperbaena eladioana

Hyperbaena eladioana
Photo: Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, CC BY 4.0

Hyperbaena eladioana is a rare shrub or small tree from montane cloud and premontane forests of Costa Rica, growing 3 to 5 metres tall. It is a wild forest species, listed as Near Threatened, and is not known as a cultivated garden or houseplant.

Family
Menispermaceae (Menisperm family)
Grows as
Tree
Light
Part shade
Water
Keep the root zone evenly moist in its native wet climate, without standing water.
Soil
Well-drained, humus-rich forest-type soil.
Temperature
Warm to mild, roughly 15–28 °C; protect from frost.
Native range
Costa Rica
Climate
wet tropical

About

Hyperbaena eladioana is a species of flowering plant in the family Menispermaceae. It is a small tree endemic to Costa Rica. The species was described in 1991, and is listed as Near Threatened by the International Union for Conservation of Nature.

Where it grows

Hyperbaena eladioana is native to the wet tropical biome, and grows in humid to wet seasonal premontane and pluvial montane forests.

Other Hyperbaena plants

Hyperbaena allenii · Hyperbaena axilliflora · Hyperbaena brevipes · Hyperbaena columbica · Hyperbaena cubensis · Forest snakevine · Hyperbaena hassleri · Hyperbaena ilicifolia · Hyperbaena jalcomulcensis · Limestone snakevine · Hyperbaena leptobotryosa · Hyperbaena lindmanii

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Hyperbaena eladioana 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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