General Landscape Uses: Privacy hedges or windbreaks, coastal buffer plantings, container or raised bed plantings, topiary shrubs
Ecological Restoration Notes: Not recommended
Description: The Small Leaf Clusia, also known as Pitch Apple, can be used as a hedge or a screen plant. They are salt and drought tolerant and easy to maintain. The leaves are thick and attractive and offer a tropical look for any landscape.
Dimensions: Height 25 ft.; Spread 4 – 10 ft.
Growth Rate: Moderate to fast
Native Range: Caribbean and parts of Central America
Native Habitats: Coastal forests, tropical hammocks, scrublands, and rocky limestone outcrops
Soils: Well-draining, sandy or rocky
Nutritional Requirements: Low to moderate
Salt Water Tolerance: High
Salt Wind Tolerance: High
Drought Tolerance: Dry to Moderate
Light Requirements: Full Sun to Partial Sun
Flower Color: Pink-white
Flower Characteristics: Small, waxy, star-shaped
Flowering Season: Summer
Fruit: Green turning brown capsules
Wildlife and Ecology: Birds may eat the fruit, dense foliage provides nesting cover
Horticultural Notes: Grown from cuttings, seed
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