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Ventilago denticulata

Ventilago denticulata
Photo: Raffi Kojian, CC BY-SA 3.0

Ventilago denticulata is a tropical tree or climbing shrub from the buckthorn family, native across South and Southeast Asia and southern China. It is a wild species of seasonally dry forests and is rarely grown in gardens, so care advice below is general and limited.

Family
Rhamnaceae (Rhamn family)
Grows as
Tree
Light
Full sun
Water
Water sparingly and let the soil dry between waterings; it tolerates seasonal drought in the wild.
Soil
Well-drained soil or potting mix
Temperature
18–35 °C; protect below 10 °C
How easy
Moderate
Native range
Indian Subcontinent to China (S. Yunnan, W. Guangxi, SW. Guizhou) and Indo-China
Climate
seasonally dry tropical

About

Ventilago denticulata is a species of tree with a wide distribution in East, Southeast, and South Asia, and including in Indo-China, China (Guangxi, Guizhou, and Yunnan), and most of India.

Other Ventilago plants

Ventilago ecorollata · Ventilago madraspatana · Medicine Bark · Ventilago

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Ventilago denticulata 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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