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Saurauia avellana is a shrub or small bush of the Actinidiaceae family, native to the Philippines, reaching 3 to 5 metres tall with large, rigid, hairy-backed leaves. Sources give little cultivation detail, so care notes below are general guidance for a warm, humid tropical shrub.
Saurauia avellana is a species of plant in the Actinidiaceae family. It is native to the Philippines. Adolph Daniel Edward Elmer, the American botanist who first formally described the species, named it after the dense covering of hazel-colored (avellaneus in Latin) downy hair covering the underside of its leaves.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Saurauia avellana 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.
