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Beilschmiedia elliptica
A medium to large rainforest tree from eastern Australia, growing up to about 30 m tall. It is grown for its shade and form, and is best started from fresh seed with the fleshy aril removed.
Beilschmiedia elliptica, known as the grey walnut is a rainforest laurel native to northeastern New South Wales and southeastern Queensland in eastern Australia. The range of natural distribution is from Forster, New South Wales (32° S) to Fraser Island (25° S) in southeastern Queensland. Beilschmiedia elliptica grows in warm temperate and subtropical rainforests. It is not a rare species, but seldom identified in the rainforest.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Beilschmiedia elliptica 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.
