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Prismatomeris mollis

Prismatomeris mollis
Photo: The Trustees of the Natural History Museum, London, CC BY 4.0

Prismatomeris mollis is a shrub in the coffee family (Rubiaceae) from wet tropical forests of southern Myanmar and Peninsular Thailand. It is rarely grown outside its native range, so care guidance is limited and should be treated as a general tropical shrub approach.

Family
Rubiaceae (Coffee family)
Grows as
Shrub
Light
Part shade, Bright indirect
Water
Keep the soil evenly moist during the growing season and avoid waterlogging.
Soil
Well-drained, humus-rich, slightly acidic mix.
Temperature
18–30 °C; protect below 15 °C.
How easy
Moderate
Native range
S. Myanmar to Pen. Thailand
Climate
wet tropical

About

Prismatomeris mollis is a species of flowering plant in the family Rubiaceae. It is a shrub native to south-east Asia, and was described in 1932.

Where it grows

Prismatomeris mollis is native to the wet tropical biome of Peninsular Thailand and southern Myanmar.

Other Prismatomeris plants

Prismatomeris albidiflora · Prismatomeris beccariana · Prismatomeris borneensis · Prismatomeris brachypus · Prismatomeris filamentosa · Prismatomeris fragrans · Prismatomeris glabra · Prismatomeris griffithii · Prismatomeris javanica · Prismatomeris khoonmengiana · Prismatomeris kinabaluensis · Prismatomeris memecyloides

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Prismatomeris mollis 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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