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Sebastiania schottiana

Sebastiania schottiana
Photo: Lucas Kaminski, CC BY 4.0

Sebastiania schottiana is a shrub in the spurge family, native to seasonally dry tropical areas from Brazil to northeastern Argentina. It is rarely grown as a garden or houseplant, so most care guidance is general and should be checked against local conditions.

Family
Euphorbiaceae (Spurge family)
Grows as
Shrub
Light
Full sun, Part shade
Water
Water moderately while establishing, then allow the soil to dry between waterings, as it tolerates seasonal dry spells.
Soil
Well-drained soil or a sandy, gritty potting mix.
Temperature
18–30 °C; protect below 10 °C
How easy
Moderate
Native range
Brazil to NE. Argentina
Climate
seasonally dry tropical

About

Sebastiania schottiana is a species of flowering plant in the family Euphorbiaceae. It was originally described as Gymnanthes schottiana Müll.Arg. in 1863. It is native from Brazil to northeastern Argentina.

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 schottiana 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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