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Pterocarpus officinalis
Also called Bloodwood, Dragon Blood Tree
Dragonsblood tree is a tropical timber tree of wet coastal and swamp forests in the Americas and Caribbean. It grows best in wet, freshwater or slightly brackish ground near mangroves, and it is rarely grown as a garden plant outside the tropics.
Pterocarpus officinalis, the dragonsblood tree, is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae, native to southern Mexico, Central America, the Caribbean, and northern South America. It is typically found in coastal freshwater or slightly brackish habitats, in association with mangroves that occupy the more saline areas. Its timber is commercially traded.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Pterocarpus officinalis 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.
