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Backhousia tetraptera is a rare tree from a single population near Townsville, Queensland, growing 5 to 12 metres tall with white flowers and four-winged capsules. It is critically endangered in the wild and is not known to be in cultivation as a garden plant.
Backhousia tetraptera is a tree in the family Myrtaceae. The only known population occurs at the foot of Mount Stuart near Townsville in Queensland, Australia.
The species grows to between 5 and 12 metres (16 and 39 ft) high often with multiple trunks that have a mottled flaking bark including grey, grey-brown and/or pink colouration. The leaves are simple and opposite and are 5.5 to 9 cm (2.2 to 3.5 in) long and 1.5 to 3.8 cm (0.6 to 1.5 in) wide. The white flowers appear in clusters of 10 and have 56 to 65 stamens.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Backhousia tetraptera 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.
