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Mischogyne elliotianum

Mischogyne elliotianum
Photo: Carel Jongkind, CC BY-SA 4.0

Mischogyne elliotianum is a tropical African bush of the custard apple family (Annonaceae), reaching 4 to 7 metres, with glossy leaves and small white flowers. It is a wild forest shrub rather than a commonly grown garden plant, so care guidance is limited.

Family
Annonaceae (Annon family)
Light
Part shade
Water
Keep the soil evenly moist during the growing season and let the top layer dry slightly between waterings.
Soil
Well-drained, humus-rich soil or a loamy potting mix.
Temperature
18 to 30 °C; protect below 10 °C
How easy
Moderate

About

Mischogyne elliotiana is a species of plant in the Annonaceae family. It is native to Cameroon, Gabon, Ghana, Guinea-Bissau, Ivory Coast, Liberia, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, and Zaire.

Adolf Engler and Ludwig Diels, the German botanists who first formally described the species using the basionym Uvaria elliotiana, named it after George Scott-Elliot the botanist who collected the specimen they examined.

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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Mischogyne elliotiana 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.

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