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Perebea rubra

Perebea rubra is a tropical rainforest tree of the fig and mulberry family, native to lowland Amazonia and the Guianas. It is not grown as a garden or houseplant, so care guidance reflects its natural wet tropical conditions.

Family
Moraceae (Fig & mulberry family)
Grows as
Tree
Light
Part shade
Water
Keep soil consistently moist, as it grows in seasonally flooded lowland forest.
Soil
Rich, moist, well-drained forest soil or loamy mix.
Temperature
22–32 °C; protect below 15 °C
Native range
SE. Colombia to W. Brazil and Guianas
Climate
wet tropical

About

Perebea rubra is a species of flowering plant in the genus Perebea of the family Moraceae. It is a tree native to tropical South America, ranging from southeastern Colombia to Ecuador, Peru, northern and west-central Brazil, Suriname, and French Guiana.

Where it grows

Perebea rubra is a semi-aquatic terrestrial plant. It is native to lowland tropical Amazon rain forest.

Other Perebea plants

Perebea rubra subsp. glabrifolia · Perebea

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Perebea rubra 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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