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Uvaria micrantha is a scrambling shrub or climbing vine in the custard apple family (Annonaceae), native to tropical Asia, Malesia, New Guinea and northern Australia. It is a wild forest plant rather than a common cultivated ornamental, so care is best matched to its wet tropical forest habitat.
Uvaria micrantha is a plant in the custard apple family Annonaceae native to Indo-China, Malesia, New Guinea, and northern parts of Western Australia and Queensland. It is a scrambling shrub or vine with a stem diameter up 5 cm (2.0 in) which inhabits monsoon forest and gallery forest.
It is a host plant for larvae of the green-spotted triangle butterfly.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Uvaria micrantha 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.
