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Sageretia lucida is a scrambling, sometimes spiny shrub from the Rhamnaceae family, native to south-central and southeast China and parts of South Asia and Vietnam. It is rarely grown as a garden or houseplant, so care is based mainly on its native habitat and general horticulture of related Sageretia shrubs.
Sageretia lucida is a shrub and can be found with or without spines. It is found in sparse forests within valleys about 300 to 800 m in elevation. Its native distribution is south-central China, southeast China including Hainan, Nepal, Sri Lanka and Vietnam.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Sageretia lucida 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.
