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Bride's Bushes

Pavetta

Bride's Bushes
Photo: C T Johansson, CC BY-SA 3.0

Pavetta is a genus of about 360 species of trees, evergreen shrubs and sub-shrubs from tropical Africa and Asia, grown for their glossy, variable leaves and clusters of small white flowers. Commonly grown members are the Bride's Bushes, valued as warm-climate shrubs that tolerate pruning.

Family
Rubiaceae (Coffee family)
Grows as
Tree
Light
Part shade, Bright indirect
Water
Water when the top of the soil feels dry, and avoid soggy roots.
Soil
Well-drained, moist, humus-rich mix.
Temperature
18 to 30 °C; protect below 10 °C
How easy
Easy

About

Pavetta is a genus of flowering plants in the family Rubiaceae. It comprises about 360 species of trees, evergreen shrubs and sub-shrubs. It is found in woodlands, grasslands and thickets in sub-tropical and tropical Africa and Asia. The plants are cultivated for their simple but variable leaves, usually opposite but also occur in triple whorls. The leaves are often membranous with dark bacterial nodules. Pavetta has small, white, tubular flowers, sometimes salviform or funnel-shaped with 4 spreading petal lobes. The flowers are carried on terminal corymbs or cymes.

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Pavetta 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.

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