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Sageretia gracilis is a scrambling shrub in the buckthorn family from the mountains of southwest China and Tibet, rarely grown outside its native range. Growing it is mostly about giving it a cool, bright spot with well-drained soil.
Sageretia gracilis is a species of flowering plant in the family Rhamnaceae. It is a shrub with slightly shiny dark green leaves and yellow-green flowers. It grows in thickets or forests in valleys and on mountains around 1200 to 3400 meters of W Guangxi, east and south east Tibet, and Yunnan, China.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Sageretia gracilis 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.
