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Canarium muelleri
Also called Elemi Tree
Canarium muelleri, known as scrub turpentine or Queensland elemi tree, is a large rainforest tree from northeastern Queensland that can reach about 30 m. It is grown mainly as a shade or landscape tree in warm, wet climates rather than as a houseplant.
Canarium muelleri, commonly named scrub turpentine or mangobark, is a species of Australian rainforest trees in the plant family Burseraceae. They are endemic to northeastern Queensland, widespread in the rainforests of the Wet Tropics region, and further south to the Conway Range area, near Proserpine, Queensland.
Full grown trees may reach up to 30 m (100 ft) tall. They have pinnate (compound) leaves each composed of 3–9 leaflets, the combined length of the leaflets and the petiole totalling up to 30 cm (12 in). In Dec–Jan they grow fleshy, blue or black ripe fruits, 13–20 mm (0.5–0.8 in) long, eaten by rainforest birds including cassowaries and by fruit bats. Each fruit contains a hard–shelled seed.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Canarium muelleri 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.
