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Stillingia acutifolia

Stillingia acutifolia
Photo: Neptalí Ramírez Marcial, CC BY 4.0

Stillingia acutifolia is a shrub or small tree of the spurge family from seasonally dry tropical forests of Mexico, Guatemala and Honduras. It is rarely grown in gardens, so care guidance is based on its dry-tropical habitat.

Family
Euphorbiaceae (Spurge family)
Grows as
Tree, Shrub
Light
Full sun
Water
Water deeply but infrequently, letting the soil dry out fully between waterings, and reduce water in the cool season.
Soil
Free-draining sandy or gritty mix with good drainage.
Temperature
18–35 °C; protect below 10 °C
How easy
Moderate
Native range
Mexico to Honduras
Climate
seasonally dry tropical

About

Stillingia acutifolia is a species of flowering plant in the family Euphorbiaceae. It was originally described by George Bentham as Sapium acutifolium in 1842. Its native range includes Mexico, Guatemala, and Honduras.

Other Stillingia plants

Water toothleaf · Stillingia argutedentata · Stillingia bicarpellaris · Stillingia bodenbenderi · Stillingia dichotoma · Stillingia diphtherina · Queen's-root · Bois Jasmin · Stillingia oppositifolia · Stillingia parvifolia · Mojave toothleaf · Stillingia peruviana

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Stillingia acutifolia 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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