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Pierreodendron kerstingii is a large West African forest tree in the quassia family, reaching about 24 m, with red flowers and yellow fruit. It is a forest species rather than a garden or houseplant, and it is uncommon and threatened by habitat loss.
Pierreodendron kerstingii is a species of tree in the family Simaroubaceae. It is endemic to West Africa and found in Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, and Benin. It is sometimes considered synonym of Pierreodendron africanum, which would then be a widespread species distributed south to Angola and east to the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
Pierreodendron kerstingii occurs in heavily exploited, semi-deciduous forests. It is an uncommon species threatened by habitat loss.
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Pierreodendron kerstingii 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.
