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Phyllanthus pitcairnensis is a small tree native only to Pitcairn Island and Henderson Island in the southern Pacific, with a few hundred trees on Pitcairn and many thousands on Henderson. It is a wild island species rarely cultivated, so growing it means treating it like other warm, humid tropical Phyllanthus trees.
Phyllanthus pitcairnensis is a species of flowering plant in the family Phyllanthaceae. It a tree which occurs only on Henderson Island and Pitcairn Island in the southern Pacific Ocean, with respective populations of approximately 20,000 and 500.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Phyllanthus pitcairnensis 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.
