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Melhania velutina is a small subshrub or herb from Africa and the Arabian Peninsula, growing up to about 1 metre tall with yellow flowers. It is a wild plant of dry woodland and grassland rather than a common garden or houseplant, so care details are sparse.
Melhania velutina is a plant in the family Malvaceae, native to Africa and the Arabian Peninsula.
Melhania velutina is native to an area from Angola northeast to Sudan and east to Somalia. It is also native to Saudi Arabia and Yemen. Its habitat is in woodland, grassland, riverside forests and agricultural land, typically at elevations of 700–1,950 m (2,300–6,400 ft).
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Melhania velutina 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.
