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Uvariopsis guineensis is a small tree in the custard apple family, native to West tropical Africa, known from Guinea, Ivory Coast, Liberia and Sierra Leone. It is a forest species of wet tropical climates rather than a garden or houseplant.
Uvariopsis guineensis is a species of plant in the custard apple family Annonaceae. It is native to Guinea, Ivory Coast, Liberia, and Sierra Leone. Ronald William John Keay, the botanist who first formally described the species, named it after Guinea, then called French Guinea, where the specimens he examined were collected near a locality he identifies as Fassakoidou.
Based on interviews with traditional healers in Guinea it has been recorded as being used to treat skin ailments.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Uvariopsis guineensis 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.
