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Schefflera hierniana
Astropanax barteri (also listed as Schefflera hierniana) is a tropical African tree or shrub in the ivy family, found in humid rainforest and gallery forest. It is not a common garden or houseplant, so care guidance is limited, and it prefers consistently moist, humid conditions.
Astropanax barteri is a species of plant in the family Araliaceae.
It is native to tropical Africa. According to Plants of the World Online, Astropanax barteri is distributed in West Africa (Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, and Nigeria), west-central Africa (Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea, the Gulf of Guinea Islands, Gabon, Republic of the Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, and Burundi), and Angola. The IUCN Red List records a narrower range for the species (as Schefflera hierniana) in Equatorial Guinea (Bioko island) and in Cameroon, including Mount Cameroon, Belo to Lake Oku in Northwest Region, the Rumpi Hills in Southwest Region, the Bakossi Mountains, the Lebialem Highlands at Fosimondi.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Astropanax barteri 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.
Pet safety from the ASPCA toxic and non-toxic plant lists.
