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Backhousia bancroftii
Johnstone River Hardwood is a large rainforest tree from the Wet Tropics of northeast Queensland, reaching up to 33 metres. It is a wild species rarely grown in gardens, so it needs warm, humid, frost-free conditions similar to its native rainforest.
Backhousia bancroftii is a species of tree in the family Myrtaceae. It is endemic to Queensland.
It is a rainforest tree, with a range extending from around Cooktown to Innisfail in the Wet Tropics of northeast Queensland.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Backhousia bancroftii 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.
