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Terminalia parvifolia is a lowland tropical rainforest tree from South America, formerly placed in the genus Buchenavia. It is a wild forest species rarely cultivated, so care is mostly inferred from its tropical habitat.
Terminalia parvifolia is a species of flowering plant in the family Combretaceae. It is a tree native to tropical South America, ranging from Colombia and Venezuela to Guyana, French Guiana, Ecuador, Peru, and northern and southeastern Brazil, It grows in lowland tropical rain forest.
Two subspecies are accepted:
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 parvifolia 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.
