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Tapirira

Tapirira
Photo: João Medeiros, CC BY 2.0

Tapirira is a genus of about nine tropical American trees in the cashew family, native from southern Mexico to southern Brazil. Members are mainly grown as shade or forest trees in warm, humid regions and are rarely cultivated as garden plants.

Family
Anacardiaceae (Cashew family)
Light
Part shade, Bright indirect
Water
Water regularly while young, then moderately once established; avoid waterlogging.
Soil
Well-drained, fertile soil or loam.
Temperature
18–30 °C; protect below 5 °C
How easy
Moderate

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Tapirira is a genus of flowering plants in the family Anacardiaceae. It includes nine species native to the tropical Americas, ranging from southern Mexico through Central America and northern South America to Bolivia, Paraguay, and southern Brazil.

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Tapirira 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.

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