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Pseuduvaria grandifolia

Pseuduvaria grandifolia is a tree up to about 12 m tall from the custard apple family, native to New Guinea and named for its large leaves. It grows in wet tropical rainforest and is a wild forest species, not a common garden or houseplant.

Family
Annonaceae (Annon family)
Light
Part shade
Water
Keep the soil consistently moist but not waterlogged, as in its rainforest habitat.
Soil
Rich, humus-heavy, free-draining forest soil.
Temperature
Warm, humid tropical conditions year round; not frost tolerant.
How easy
Hard
Native range
New Guinea
Climate
wet tropical

About

Pseuduvaria grandifolia is a species of plant in the family Annonaceae. It is native to New Guinea. Otto Warburg, the German-Jewish botanists who first formally described the species using the basionym Stelechocarpus grandifolius, named it after its large (grandi-, in Latin) leaves (folia, in Latin).

Where it grows

It has been observed growing in rainforests at elevations of 20–1,400 meters (66–4,600 ft).

Other Pseuduvaria plants

Pseuduvaria aurantiaca · Pseuduvaria beccarii · Pseuduvaria borneensis · Pseuduvaria bruneiensis · Pseuduvaria calliura · Pseuduvaria cerina · Pseuduvaria clemensiae · Pseuduvaria coriacea · Pseuduvaria costata · Pseuduvaria cymosa · Pseuduvaria dielsiana · Pseuduvaria fragrans

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Pseuduvaria grandifolia 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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