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Lasianthus cyanocarpus

Lasianthus cyanocarpus is a tropical understory shrub in the coffee family, native to South and Southeast Asia, where it grows in shaded, moist forests. It is rarely grown in gardens, and care depends on giving it shade and steady moisture.

Family
Rubiaceae (Coffee family)
Grows as
Shrub
Light
Shade, Part shade
Water
Keep the soil evenly moist and never let it dry out completely.
Soil
Rich, well-drained, humus-heavy soil or a peat-based mix.
Temperature
18–30 °C; protect below 10 °C
How easy
Moderate
Native range
Trop. & Subtrop. Asia
Climate
wet tropical

About

Lasianthus cyanocarpus is a species of flowering plant in the family Rubiaceae. It is a tropical understory shrub distributed across parts of South and Southeast Asia, including India, Sri Lanka, Myanmar, Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia, and the Philippines.

Where it grows

Lasianthus cyanocarpus occurs in tropical evergreen and semi-evergreen forests, often in shaded understory habitats. In India it has been recorded from the Western Ghats, northeastern India, and the Andaman Islands.

Other Lasianthus plants

Lasianthus agasthyamalayanus · Lasianthus blumeanus · Lasianthus capitulatus · Blue rubi · Lasianthus ciliatus · Lasianthus gardneri · Jack's Wool Flower · Lasianthus kilimandscharicus · Lasianthus macrocalyx · Lasianthus oliganthus · Lasianthus pedunculatus · Lasianthus rhizophyllus

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Lasianthus cyanocarpus 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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