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Symplocos celastrifolia is a shrub or tree of Southeast Asian lowland forests, reaching up to 30 m tall, with white flowers and blue-purple fruit. It is a forest tree rather than a garden or houseplant, so care notes are general and mostly relevant to cultivation in wet tropical climates.
Symplocos celastrifolia is a plant in the family Symplocaceae, native to Southeast Asia. The specific epithet celastrifolia refers to the leaves' resemblance to those of species in the genus Celastrus.
Symplocos celastrifolia is broadly distributed in Southeast Asia: in Thailand, Peninsular Malaysia, Sumatra, Borneo, Sulawesi, the Maluku Islands, New Guinea and the Philippines. Its habitat is lowland forests, sometimes near the sea, or inland by rivers, at elevations to 1,000 m (3,300 ft).
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Symplocos celastrifolia 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.
