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Aleurites rockinghamensis
Also called Candlenut Siris, Candlenut Tree
Candelnut is a tropical flowering tree in the spurge family, native to northeastern Queensland and Papua New Guinea. It is grown in warm, frost-free climates and needs a sheltered, moist, fertile spot to do well.
Aleurites rockinghamensis, the candlenut, is a flowering tree in the spurge family, Euphorbiaceae found in northeastern Australia. It was first formally described and named by French botanist Henri Ernest Baillon as a variety of Aleurites moluccanus, as Aleurites moluccanus var. rockinghamensis in 1866. The Australian botanist Paul Irwin Forster promoted it to distinct species status in 1996. The type specimen was collected in Rockingham Bay, Queensland. It occurs in Australia and Papua New Guinea.
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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.
