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Virola sebifera
Also called Virola Nut, Red Ucuuba
Virola sebifera is a tall, slender tropical tree from Central and South America, grown mainly for timber, resin and its nut-like fruit rather than as an ornamental. It needs a warm, humid, wet tropical climate and is rarely grown outside its native range.
Virola sebifera is a species of tree in the family Myristicaceae, from North and South America.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Virola sebifera 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.
