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Walsura pinnata

Walsura pinnata is a tall tropical forest tree from the Meliaceae family, reaching up to about 37 m, with feather-like leaves. It is a forest species rarely grown as a garden plant, so the care notes below apply only if it is grown in a suitable tropical setting.

Family
Meliaceae (Meli family)
Grows as
Tree
Light
Part shade, Bright indirect
Water
Water regularly while young and keep the soil moist but not waterlogged, since it grows in wet tropical climates.
Soil
Free-draining, fertile, humus-rich soil.
Temperature
20–35 °C; protect below 10 °C.
How easy
Moderate
Native range
China (S. Yunnan, S. Guangxi) to Indo-China and W. New Guinea
Climate
wet tropical

About

Walsura pinnata is a tree in the family Meliaceae. The specific epithet pinnata is from the Latin meaning 'feather-like', referring to the leaves.

Where it grows

Walsura pinnata grows naturally in southern China, Indochina and Malesia. Its habitat is lowland tropical forest.

Other Walsura plants

Walsura decipiens · Walsura dehiscens · Walsura gardneri · Walsura monophylla · Walsura pachycaulon · Walsura robusta · Walsura sarawakensis · Walsura trifoliolata · Walsura

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Walsura pinnata 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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