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Bully

Sideroxylon st-johnianum

Also called Bumelia, Milkwoods, Bully Trees

Sideroxylon st-johnianum is a tropical tree in the Sapotaceae family, endemic to Henderson Island in the Pitcairn group. It is a wild species of a remote island and is not commonly grown, so care guidance is limited.

Family
Sapotaceae (Sapot family)
Grows as
Tree
Light
Full sun
Water
Water regularly while young, then let the top of the soil dry slightly between waterings.
Soil
Well-drained, fertile soil or a loam-based mix.
Temperature
18–30 °C; protect below 10 °C
How easy
Hard
Native range
Pitcairn Is. (Henderson I.)
Climate
wet tropical

About

Sideroxylon st-johnianum is a species of flowering plant in the family Sapotaceae. It is endemic to Henderson Island, Pitcairn. Having been described first as Nesoluma st-johnianum (1938), this species was transferred to the genus Sideroxylon in 2007 as a result of the phylogenetic analyses.

Other Sideroxylon plants

Sideroxylon acunae · Alachua bully · Sideroxylon altamiranoi · Sideroxylon anomalum · Sideroxylon bullatum · Sideroxylon canariense · Sideroxylon cartilagineum · Saffron plum · Sideroxylon contrerasii · Espejuelo · Sideroxylon dominicanum · Sideroxylon durifolium

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Sideroxylon st-johnianum 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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