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Myrsine longifolia

Myrsine longifolia is a shrub or small tree native to Tahiti in French Polynesia, found in lowland tropical moist forest. It is grown mainly as a tropical garden shrub and needs warm, humid, reasonably moist conditions.

Family
Primulaceae (Primul family)
Grows as
Tree, Shrub
Light
Part shade, Bright indirect
Water
Keep soil evenly moist, letting the top layer dry slightly between waterings.
Soil
Well-draining, fertile, slightly acidic humus-rich soil.
Temperature
18–30 °C; protect below 10 °C
How easy
Moderate
Native range
Society Is. (Tahiti)
Climate
wet tropical

About

Myrsine longifolia is a species of flowering plant in the family Primulaceae. It is a shrub or small tree endemic to the island of Tahiti in the Society Islands of French Polynesia. It grows in lowland tropical moist forest.

Other Myrsine plants

Myrsine adamsonii · African Boxwood · Myrsine andersonii · Mapou · Myrsine brownii · Myrsine bullata · Myrsine ceylanica · Cook Islands Myrsine · Myrsine collina · Leathery colicwood · Summit colicwood · Myrsine diazii

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Myrsine longifolia 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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