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Luehea

Luehea speciosa

Luehea
Photo: Gaiacoyote, CC0
Family
Malvaceae (Mallow family)
Grows as
Tree
Native range
S. Mexico to S. Trop. America
Climate
wet tropical

About

Luehea speciosa, with no commonly used English name, is an attractive tree species native mostly to tropical regions of the New World. It belongs to the family Malvaceae.

Where it grows

Luehea speciosa occurs in southern Mexico, Cuba, all of Central America, and in South America south into Peru, Bolivia and northern Brazil.

Other Luehea plants

Luehea divaricata · Luehea seemannii · Luehea

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Luehea speciosa by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.

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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