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Jointed Baloghia

Baloghia marmorata

Jointed Baloghia
Photo: Poyt448 Peter Woodard, CC0

Jointed Baloghia (marbled baloghia) is a small rainforest tree from eastern Australia, rare in the wild. It is grown mainly as a specimen or rainforest-style plant in warm, humid, frost-free areas, and cuttings root readily.

Family
Euphorbiaceae (Spurge family)
Grows as
Tree
Light
Part shade, Bright indirect
Water
Keep the soil evenly moist during growth and let the top layer dry slightly between waterings.
Soil
Rich, well-drained loam or red basaltic-style soil, with organic matter added.
Temperature
18–30 °C; protect below 10 °C
How easy
Moderate
Native range
Queensland (Moreton), New South Wales (North Coast)
Climate
wet tropical

About

Baloghia marmorata is a rare rainforest plant of eastern Australia. It is commonly known as the marbled baloghia.

Where it grows

Occurring in a few places in the Big Scrub, such as Victoria Park Nature Reserve and Davis Scrub Nature Reserve, and as far north as Gympie in Queensland, the habitat is subtropical rainforest at low altitude on red brown basaltic soils, with a high rainfall.

Other Baloghia plants

Baloghia alternifolia · Baloghia anisomera · Baloghia balansae · Baloghia brongniartii · Baloghia buchholzii · Baloghia bureavii · Baloghia deplanchei · Baloghia drimiflora · Scrub bloodwood · Baloghia montana · Baloghia neocaledonica · Baloghia parviflora

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Baloghia marmorata 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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