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Acronychia wilcoxiana
Silver aspen is a small rainforest tree native to eastern Australia, usually grown as a specimen or in larger landscapes rather than as a houseplant. Seed germination is slow and difficult, and removing the fleshy aril helps.
Acronychia wilcoxiana, commonly known as silver aspen, doughwood, snowwood or mushyberry, is a species of small rainforest tree that is endemic to eastern Australia. It has simple, elliptical to egg-shaped leaves with the narrower end towards the base, relatively large groups of whitish flowers in leaf axils and broadly oval to more or less spherical, white fruit.
Germination from seed is not easy; however, the removal of the fleshy aril from the seed will improve results. Seeds may germinate after 6 to 12 months.
Acronychia wilcoxiana grows in rainforest, mostly between Fraser Island in south-east Queensland and Gosford in central-eastern New South Wales and from sea level to an altitude of 450 m (1,480 ft), but a small population of about eight mature trees has been recorded at Primbee in the Illawarra district.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Acronychia wilcoxiana 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.
