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Sterculia Alata
£3.20per packet
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Red flowers grow into huge, very pretty, five-sectioned seed pods with red interiors, which can reach 12 cm in diameter and open along one side to release up to 40 very large, shiny, black edible seeds. This large deciduous tree with an attractive buttressed trunk is found in disturbed, evergreen forests from India to Burma and Malaysia.
- Common name
- Tropical Chestnuts, Buddha Coconut, Pterygota Alata,
- Family
- Malvaceae
- Packet content
- 5 seeds
- Height
- 20 m - 30 m
- Light level
- Full Sun
- Growth habit
- Deciduous
- Hardiness rating
- H1
- Pollinator-friendly
- No
- Moisture
- Free draining
- Region of origin
- Asia
- Colour
- Green
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