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Qualea parviflora is a deciduous tree from the seasonally dry savannas (cerrado) of Bolivia, Brazil and Paraguay, growing up to about 8 m tall. It is rarely grown outside its native range, so care guidance below is general and drawn from horticultural knowledge of Qualea rather than cultivation records.
Qualea parviflora, known as pau-terra in Portuguese, is a deciduous tree indigenous to Bolivia, Brazil, and Paraguay. The tree favors dry climates like the tropical savanna of the cerrado.
The flowers are pollinated by bees. The seeds are eaten by buprestid beetles and small Hymenoptera species. Caterpillars of the dalcerid moth Dalcera abrasa feed on Quaela parviflora.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Qualea parviflora 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.
