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Dillenia retusa
About
Dillenia retusa is a plant endemic to the island of Sri Lanka, there are records in the forests of Bolampatti and Anamalai hills. An ornamental, moderate sized tree, twigs and peduncles are glabrous. Leaves blunt at tip, cuneate at base, serrate, glabrous. Flowers 6–8 cm across, petals spathulate, narrow. Fruit enclosed by sepals.
- Family
- Dilleniaceae
Ecology
How it lives
- Propagated by
- Seed
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- Name
- Dillenia retusa
- Slug
- dillenia-retusa
- Kingdom
- Plantae
- Family
- Dilleniaceae
- Genus
- Dillenia
- Species
- retusa
- Propagule type
- seed
- Container suitable
- No
- Indoor suitable
- No
- OSSI pledged
- No
- Hazard level
- 1
- Data completeness
- 43
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