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Morinda asteroscepa

Morinda asteroscepa is a rare tree in the coffee family, known from forest in Tanzania and Malawi and listed as vulnerable. It is a wild forest species with little cultivation history, so there is little established guidance for growing it.

Family
Rubiaceae (Coffee family)
Grows as
Tree
Light
Part shade
Temperature
Wet tropical climate; no reliable range published
Native range
Tanzania to Malawi (Nchisi Forest)
Climate
wet tropical

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Morinda asteroscepa is a species of plant in the family Rubiaceae. It is found in Malawi and Tanzania, and is on the IUCN Red List vulnerable species (Plantae).

Other Morinda plants

Indian mulberry · Indian Mulberry · Morinda fasciculata · Indian Mulberry · Redgal · Morinda

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Morinda asteroscepa 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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