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Varronia rupicola
Puerto Rico manjack is a small, endangered woody shrub of the Cordiaceae family, found only on limestone and dry forest sites in Puerto Rico and Anegada. It is rarely grown, and the key to any care is its limited wild range and dry, limestone-adapted habitat.
Varronia rupicola, synonym Cordia rupicola, commonly known as the Puerto Rico manjack, is an endangered species of flowering shrub in the family Cordiaceae, that is native to the islands of Puerto Rico and Anegada.
The species was believed to be endemic to Puerto Rico until it was described from the island of Anegada in 1987. The species was discovered in Los Indios, between Guayanilla and barrio Barinas in Yauco in 1886. A year later it was found in Guánica. Two reports of a single specimen exist from the island of Vieques but no population has been confirmed. In 1995 fifteen plants were found east of the historical locations at El Peñón in Peñuelas.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Varronia rupicola 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.
