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Myrcia skeldingii

Myrcia skeldingii is an extinct shrub or tree in the myrtle family, once found only along the Mason River in Jamaica. It is no longer grown and has no cultivation care profile.

Family
Myrtaceae (Myrtle family)
Grows as
Tree, Shrub
Native range
Jamaica (Mason River Savannah)
Climate
seasonally dry tropical

About

Myrcia skeldingii is an extinct species of plant in the family Myrtaceae that was endemic to a single location along the Mason River between Clarendon and Saint Ann Parishes, Jamaica. It became extinct due to habitat loss.

Other Myrcia plants

Myrcia brevispicata · Myrcia peduncularis · Myrcia clarendonensis · Myrcia asperorum · Myrcia chionantha · Myrcia acutissima · Myrcia adunca · Myrcia albobrunnea · Myrcia almasensis · Myrcia arenicola · Myrcia ascendens · Myrcia attenuata

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Myrcia skeldingii 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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