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Acrophyllum australe

Acrophyllum australe
Photo: Biodiversity Heritage Library, Public domain

Acrophyllum australe is a small evergreen shrub from a restricted area of New South Wales, Australia, listed as vulnerable in the wild. It is grown in gardens mainly for its shiny, serrated foliage.

Family
Cunoniaceae (Cunoni family)
Grows as
Shrub
Light
Part shade, Bright indirect
Water
Water regularly during dry spells, keeping the root zone moist but not waterlogged.
Soil
Well-drained, humus-rich, slightly acidic soil.
Temperature
10–25 °C; protect below 0 °C.
How easy
Moderate
Native range
E. Australia
Climate
seasonally dry tropical

About

Acrophyllum australe is a woody flowering plant, native to a small area of New South Wales, Australia. A. australe is listed as a vulnerable species in the wild, by the Australian Department of the Environment and Heritage (DEH).

The plant has small, shiny, heavily serrated leaves. The flowers are small, white and inconspicuous, growing from the purplish stems. It is an evergreen shrub, and has been cultivated for gardening.

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Acrophyllum australe 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.

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