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Vangueria burttii

Vangueria burttii is a small tree or shrub from the coffee family, endemic to Tanzania and found in seasonally dry tropical woodland. Little is documented about it in cultivation, so care advice is extrapolated from related Vangueria species.

Family
Rubiaceae (Coffee family)
Grows as
Tree, Shrub
Light
Full sun
Water
Water deeply during the rainy season and allow soil to dry between waterings; reduce sharply in the dry season.
Soil
Free-draining sandy or loamy soil.
Temperature
18–32 °C; protect below 10 °C.
Native range
Tanzania
Climate
seasonally dry tropical

About

Vangueria burttii is a species of flowering plant in the family Rubiaceae. It is endemic to Tanzania. It was described by Bernard Verdcourt in 1981 and is named after the English botanist Brian Burtt.

Other Vangueria plants

Wild Medlars · Wild Medlars · Vangueria agrestis · Vangueria albosetulosa · Vangueria apiculata · Vangueria bicolor · Forest Crowned Medlar · Vangueria burnettii · Vangueria chariensis · Vangueria cinerascens · Vangueria cinnamomea · Vangueria cistifolia

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Vangueria burttii 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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