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Buckinghamia ferruginiflora
Also called Spotted Oak
Noah's oak is a rainforest tree from the Protea family, growing up to about 30 m, found only in the Wet Tropics of north-east Queensland. It is grown mainly as a shade or specimen tree in warm, frost-free gardens rather than as a houseplant.
Buckinghamia ferruginiflora, also known as Noah's oak or spotted oak, is a species of rainforest tree in the protea family, one of two in the genus that is endemic to the Wet Tropics of Queensland, north-eastern Australia. Although the tree's differences from its congener had been known since the 1970s, it was only formally described by Donald Foreman and Bernard Hyland in 1988 in the journal Muelleria.
The species is restricted to the area between Bloomfield and the Daintree River, in mature lowland and upland rainforest, with an altitudinal range from sea level to 350 m (1,150 ft).
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Buckinghamia ferruginiflora 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.
