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Alyxia magnifolia

Alyxia magnifolia
Photo: Poyt448, Peter Woodard, CC BY-SA 4.0

Alyxia magnifolia is a small rainforest shrub or tree from eastern Queensland, Australia, in the dogbane family. It is rarely grown outside its native range, so cultivation advice is mainly general knowledge for the genus.

Family
Apocynaceae (Dogbane family)
Grows as
Tree, Shrub
Light
Part shade, Bright indirect
Water
Water when the top few centimetres of soil feel dry; avoid waterlogging.
Soil
Well-drained, humus-rich potting mix or loam.
Temperature
18–30 °C; protect below 10 °C
How easy
Moderate
Native range
E. Queensland
Climate
seasonally dry tropical

About

Alyxia magnifolia is a species of flowering plant in the dogbane family Apocynaceae, endemic to Queensland in Australia. Growing to four metres tall in rainforest.

Other Alyxia plants

Alyxia bracteolosa · Sea Box · Alyxia grandis · Native holly · Alyxia menglungensis · Chain Fruit · Chain Fruit · Chainfruit · Bead Vine · Chain fruit · Alyxia Vine · Maile

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Alyxia magnifolia 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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