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Melhania polygama is a small shrub in the mallow family (Malvaceae), known only from Hluhluwe-Imfolozi Park in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, where it grows on grassy hill slopes. It is a little-known wild species with no established cultivation guidance, so care advice here is general and cautious.
Melhania polygama is a plant in the mallow family Malvaceae, native to South Africa.
Melhania polygama is known only from Hluhluwe–Imfolozi Park (formerly Umfolozi Game
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Melhania polygama 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.
