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Pentagonia spathicalyx is a tropical tree in the coffee family, native to wet forests from western South America to northern Brazil, and it is rarely grown outside its native range. Its care is mostly unknown in cultivation, so treat it as a warm, humid, shade-tolerant tropical tree.
Pentagonia spathicalyx is a species of flowering plant in the family Rubiaceae, native to western South America (Colombia, Ecuador and Peru) to north Brazil. It was first described by Karl Moritz Schumann in 1889.
Pentagonia gomez-lauritoi · Pentagonia involucrata · Pentagonia macrophylla · Pentagonia rubriflora · Pentagonia
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Pentagonia spathicalyx 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.
