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Sclerocarya gillettii

Sclerocarya gillettii is a shrub or small tree from the cashew family, native to northern and eastern Kenya's dry lands. It is a wild species of arid and semi-arid areas and is rarely grown as a garden or houseplant, so most care guidance is general.

Family
Anacardiaceae (Cashew family)
Grows as
Tree, Shrub
Light
Full sun
Water
Water sparingly and let the soil dry out fully between waterings; it tolerates drought well once established.
Soil
Free-draining sandy or gritty soil; poor soil is fine as long as drainage is good.
Temperature
Warm conditions suited to dry tropical climates; protect from frost, which it cannot tolerate.
How easy
Hard
Native range
N. & E. Kenya
Climate
desert or dry shrubland

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Sclerocarya gillettii is a species of plant in the family Anacardiaceae. It is endemic to Kenya.

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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Sclerocarya gillettii 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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