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Matisia cordata
Matisia cordata is a large, semi-deciduous rainforest fruit tree from the Amazon region that can reach about 45 m, grown for its sweet orange-yellow fruit. It is a tree rather than a houseplant and needs a wet tropical climate with deep, moist soil.
Matisia cordata, known as the South American sapote or chupa-chupa, is a large, semi-deciduous fruit tree reaching heights of up to 45 meters. It is native to the Amazon rainforest vegetation in Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru.
Matisia cordata is native to the foothills of the Andes and is commonly found throughout parts of Brazil, Venezuela, and Colombia, as well as rural southern Panama. However, it is not widely cultivated
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Matisia cordata 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.
