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Large Cap Flower

Mitrephora grandiflora

Large Cap Flower
Photo: Govindoo, Public domain

Mitrephora grandiflora is a medium-sized tree in the custard apple family (Annonaceae), native to the Western Ghats of southwestern India and grown mainly in the wild or in tropical gardens. It needs warm, humid, frost-free conditions to thrive.

Family
Annonaceae (Annon family)
Grows as
Tree
Light
Part shade, Bright indirect
Water
Water regularly during the growing season and let the top of the soil dry slightly between waterings.
Soil
Well-drained, fertile, slightly acidic loam or humus-rich mix.
Temperature
20–32 °C; protect below 10 °C
How easy
Hard
Native range
SW. India, Bangladesh
Climate
wet tropical

About

Mitrephora grandiflora is a species of flowering plant in the family Annonaceae. It is a tree native to the Western Ghats of Karnataka and Kerala in southwestern India.

Other Mitrephora plants

Mitrephora alba · Mitrephora amdjahii · Mitrephora calcarea · Mitrephora caudata · Mitrephora diversifolia · Mitrephora fragrans · Mitrephora glabra · Nilgiri Cap Flower · Mitrephora keithii · Mitrephora lanotan · Mitrephora macclurei · Mitrephora macrocarpa

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Mitrephora grandiflora 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.

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