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Terminalia cherrieri

Terminalia cherrieri
Photo: Jean-Pierre Chéreau & Roger Culos, CC BY-SA 3.0

Terminalia cherrieri is a tree in the Combretaceae family, endemic to New Caledonia and threatened by habitat loss. It is a wet-tropical species, and care advice is limited because it is rarely cultivated.

Family
Combretaceae (Combret family)
Grows as
Tree
Light
Full sun, Part shade
Water
Water regularly while establishing, then allow the top of the soil to dry slightly between waterings.
Soil
Well-drained, fertile soil or loam.
Temperature
20–30 °C; protect below 10 °C
How easy
Hard
Native range
New Caledonia
Climate
wet tropical

About

Terminalia cherrieri is a species of plant in the Combretaceae family. It is endemic to New Caledonia. It is threatened by habitat loss. The dry forest habitat of Terminalia cherrieri has been reduced by roughly 95% over the past 150 years, largely for agricultural use.

Other Terminalia plants

Terminalia tetraphylla · Buchenavia pabstii · Tropical Almond · Terminalia acuminata · Terminalia albida · White Olivier · Gum Ghatti · White olive · Terminalia archipelagi · Brown damson · Arjun · Crocodile Tree

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Terminalia cherrieri 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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