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Inga lomatophylla

Inga lomatophylla is a tropical tree in the pea family native to northern South America, including Colombia, Venezuela, Guyana and northern Brazil. It is a wet-tropics forest tree grown mainly for its shade and fruiting pods rather than as a houseplant.

Family
Fabaceae (Pea & bean family)
Grows as
Tree
Light
Full sun, Part shade
Water
Keep soil consistently moist, especially while young.
Soil
Deep, fertile, well-drained loam.
Temperature
22–32 °C; protect below 10 °C.
How easy
Moderate
Native range
Colombia to N. South America and N. Brazil
Climate
wet tropical

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Inga lomatophylla is a species of tree in the family Fabaceae. It can be found in Brazil, Colombia, Guyana and Venezuela. It was described by Lourdes Cárdenas.

Other Inga plants

Inga adenophylla · White Inga · Inga allenii · Inga amboroensis · Inga andersonii · Inga approximata · Inga aptera · Inga arenicola · Inga augusti · Inga balsapambensis · Inga barbata · Inga bella

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Inga lomatophylla 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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