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Myrcia umbelliformis

Myrcia umbelliformis is a shrub or small tree from the myrtle family, endemic to Jamaica and found in moist limestone-hill forest. It is a wild forest species rarely grown in gardens, so care is mostly inferred from its tropical moist-forest habitat.

Family
Myrtaceae (Myrtle family)
Grows as
Tree, Shrub
Light
Part shade, Bright indirect
Water
Keep soil evenly moist during growth; let the top layer dry slightly between waterings.
Soil
Well-drained, humus-rich mix suited to limestone-influenced soils.
Temperature
18–30 °C; protect below 10 °C
How easy
Moderate
Native range
E. Jamaica
Climate
wet tropical

About

Myrcia umbelliformis is a species of flowering plant in the family Myrtaceae. It is a shrub or tree endemic to Jamaica. It has a disjunct distribution in Saint James Parish in the west and Portland Parish in the east, where it grows in tropical moist forest on limestone hills.

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 umbelliformis 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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