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Pseuduvaria costata is a small tree from New Guinea in the custard apple family (Annonaceae), known mainly from botanical records. It grows in clay soils and secondary forest at low elevations, and is not a common garden or houseplant.
Pseuduvaria costata is a species of plant in the family Annonaceae. It is native to New Guinea. Rudolph Scheffer, the Dutch botanist who first formally described the species using the basionym Orophea costata, named it after its prominently ribbed (costatus in Latin) fruit.
It has been observed growing in clay soils, in secondary forests, at elevations from 30 to 50 meters (98 to 160 ft).
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Pseuduvaria costata 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.
