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Sebastiania pteroclada

Sebastiania pteroclada is a shrub in the spurge family (Euphorbiaceae), native to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and rarely grown outside its native range. Little is documented about its cultivation, so care guidance below is general for seasonally dry tropical shrubs.

Family
Euphorbiaceae (Spurge family)
Grows as
Shrub
Light
Full sun
Water
Water deeply when the top few centimetres of soil are dry, and let it dry out between waterings.
Soil
Well-drained sandy or loamy soil.
Temperature
18–30 °C; protect below 10 °C
Native range
Brazil (Rio de Janeiro)
Climate
seasonally dry tropical

About

Sebastiania pteroclada is a species of flowering plant in the family Euphorbiaceae. It was originally described as Gymnanthes pteroclada Müll.Arg. in 1863. It is native to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Other Sebastiania plants

Gymnanthes glandulosa · Gymnanthes integra · Sebastiania argutidens · Sebastiania bahiensis · Sebastiania bicalcarata · Sebastiania brasiliensis · Sebastiania brevifolia · Sebastiania catingae · Sebastiania chaetodonta · Sebastiania chahalana · Sebastiania chiapensis · Sebastiania cruenta

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Sebastiania pteroclada 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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