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Suberanthus pungens

Suberanthus pungens
Photo: Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, CC BY 4.0

Suberanthus pungens is a small shrub in the coffee family, endemic to the dry tropical lowlands of north-west Haiti and listed as Critically Endangered. It is a rare wild species with little cultivation history, so care advice here is general and tentative.

Family
Rubiaceae (Coffee family)
Grows as
Shrub
Light
Full sun
Water
Water sparingly, letting the soil dry out between waterings, as it comes from a seasonally dry climate.
Soil
Well-drained, sandy or gritty mix.
Temperature
18–30 °C; protect below 10 °C
How easy
Hard
Native range
NW. Haiti
Climate
seasonally dry tropical

About

Suberanthus pungens is a species of small shrub in the family Rubiaceae. The species was described in 1927, and reclassified in 1983. It is native to north-west Haiti, and classified as Critically Endangered.

Where it grows

Suberanthus pungens is endemic to the seasonally dry tropical biome of north-west Haiti. It is known only from the type locality, and is found at elevations from 20–150 metres (66–492 ft).

Other Suberanthus plants

Suberanthus brachycarpus · Suberanthus canellifolius · Suberanthus hincheanus · Suberanthus neriifolius · Suberanthus stellatus · Suberanthus yumuriensis · Suberanthus

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Suberanthus pungens 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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