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Strychnos benthamii is a small tree from wet tropical Sri Lanka, rarely grown outside botanical collections. Its key feature is that it belongs to a genus whose members produce strong poisons, so it should be treated with caution.
Strychnos benthami is a species of plant in the Loganiaceae family. It is endemic to Sri Lanka.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Strychnos benthami 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.
