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Wrightia demartiniana

Wrightia demartiniana is a shrub or small tree from dry bushland in East Africa, valued for its fragrant white flowers. It is a species rarely grown in home gardens, so care advice is inferred from its dry-climate, tropical-savanna origin.

Family
Apocynaceae (Dogbane family)
Grows as
Tree, Shrub
Light
Full sun
Water
Water deeply but infrequently, letting the soil dry out between waterings.
Soil
Free-draining sandy or loamy soil; avoid waterlogging.
Temperature
18–35 °C; protect below 10 °C
How easy
Moderate
Native range
E. Ethiopia to Kenya
Climate
desert or dry shrubland

About

Wrightia demartiniana is a plant in the dogbane family Apocynaceae. It is native to East Africa.

Where it grows

Wrightia demartiniana is native to Ethiopia, Somalia and Kenya. Its habitat is bushland from 100–1,000 metres (300–3,300 ft) altitude.

Other Wrightia plants

Wrightia antidysenterica · Wrightia arborea · Wrightia dubia · Water Jasmine · Pala Indigo

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Wrightia demartiniana 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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