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Rauvolfia sumatrana is a tree of the Dogbane family native to wet tropical lowlands from southern China through Southeast Asia to Malesia, growing up to about 27 m tall. It is a forest tree rather than a common garden or houseplant, so care guidance is mostly general.
Rauvolfia sumatrana is a tree in the family Apocynaceae.
Rauvolfia sumatrana is native to China, India, Burma, Thailand, Vietnam and Malesia. It is found in a variety of habitats, mostly lowland.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Rauvolfia sumatrana 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.
