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Rauvolfia media is a shrub or small tree up to about 10 m tall from seasonally dry forest and savanna in Madagascar and the Comoros. It is grown mainly as a specimen or landscape plant in warm, dry-season climates, and it is little known in cultivation.
Rauvolfia media grows as a shrub or small tree up to 10 m (30 ft) tall. Its fragrant flowers feature white to dull yellow corolla lobes. Its habitat is dry forest and savanna from sea level to 800 m (2,600 ft) altitude. Extracts of the plant, mixed with food, have been used to poison pest animals. Rauvolfia media is native to Madagascar, the Comoros and Mayotte.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Rauvolfia media 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.
