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Bridelia exaltata
Also called Grey Birch, Scrub Ironbark
Brush ironbark is a medium-sized tree of eastern Australia, growing in drier rainforest and along streams up to about 600 m. Its key requirement for home growing is warmth and frost-free conditions, as it is a subtropical species.
Bridelia exaltata, known as the brush ironbark or scrub ironbark, is a tree of eastern Australia. It occurs in and on the margins of the drier rainforests, and also by streams, often in association with the black bean, up to an elevation of 600 metres above sea level. It occurs from Seal Rocks, New South Wales to Maryborough, Queensland.
The generic name honours Samuel Elisée Bridel-Brideri, an expert on mosses. The specific name exaltata refers to the height of the tallest specimens.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Bridelia exaltata 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.
