Alectryon excelsus
Alectryon excelsus Gaertn.
- light
- Sun–part
- water
- Medium
- tall
- 6.0 m
- wide
- 4.0 m
Sapindaceae
When it flowers
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Not known yet in the tropics: too few flowering observations to read a season from.
PetsNo pet-safety information yet
PeopleNo safety information yet
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Something wrong with it?About it
- Grows as
- TreeKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- SubtropicalKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- New ZealandKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Light
- Full sun to part shade (3 h or more)Read from Burncoose Nurseries, one source
- Height
- 4.0 m to 8.0 mRead from Burncoose Nurseries, one source
- Spread
- 4.0 mRead from Burncoose Nurseries, one source
- Water
- Average: moist, well drainedRead from Burncoose Nurseries, one source
- Flowers
- Red, purpleRead from Burncoose Nurseries and Wikipedia, not yet checked: its sources are splitTied: no reading has a majority of the 2 sources, so all are kept for a person to settle. Sources differ: Burncoose Nurseries purple; Wikipedia red
- Coldest it survives
- -10 °C (USDA zone 8a)Read from Burncoose Nurseries, one source
Not known yet: heat, hottest it survives.
Where this comes from
- Kew's checklist, read 2026-10-24, CC-BY-4.0
- Burncoose Nurseries, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikipedia, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-25, CC BY-SA 3.0
- 3D model: Alectryon excelsus (built for Vanagrha) by Vanagrha, own
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