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Mammea papuana is a shrub or tree in the Calophyllaceae family, native to lowland rainforest in Papua New Guinea and the Solomon Islands. It is a rainforest tree with little cultivation information, so care advice here is general and approximate.
Mammea papuana is a species of flowering plant in the Calophyllaceae family. It is a shrub or tree native to East Sepik Province of Papua New Guinea in eastern New Guinea and to the Solomon Islands. It grows in lowland rain forest.
The species was first described as Ochrocarpos papuanus by Carl Adolf Georg Lauterbach in 1922. In 1956 André Joseph Guillaume Henri Kostermans placed the species in genus Mammea as M. papuana.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Mammea papuana 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.
