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Wooden Pear

Schrebera trichoclada

Also called Sand Jasmine

Wooden Pear
Photo: Hannah Rogers, CC BY 4.0

Schrebera trichoclada is a shrub or bushy tree from southern tropical Africa, grown mainly for its native woodland character rather than as a common garden plant. It is a deciduous species that needs a warm, seasonally dry climate and well-drained soil.

Family
Oleaceae (Olive family)
Grows as
Tree, Shrub
Light
Full sun
Water
Water deeply during the growing season and let the soil dry between waterings; reduce sharply in the dry season.
Soil
Well-drained sandy or loamy soil.
Temperature
18-30 °C; protect below 10 °C
How easy
Moderate
Native range
Tanzania to NE. Namibia
Climate
seasonally dry tropical

About

Schrebera trichoclada, the wing-leaved wooden pear, is a plant in the family Oleaceae.

Where it grows

Schrebera trichoclada is native to an area of southern tropical Africa from the Democratic Republic of the Congo southeast to Mozambique. Its habitat is deciduous woodland.

Other Schrebera plants

Wing Leaved Wooden Pea · Schrebera kusnotoi · Schrebera swietenioides · Schrebera

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Schrebera trichoclada 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.

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