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Pink Sycamore

Ceratopetalum virchowii

Pink Sycamore
Photo: Royal Botanic Gardens and Domain Trust, CC BY 4.0
Family
Cunoniaceae (Cunoni family)
Grows as
Tree
Native range
Queensland (Cook)
Climate
wet tropical

About

Ceratopetalum virchowii, commonly known as pink sycamore or dogwood, is a species of plant in the family Cunoniaceae. It is a rainforest tree, native to the Wet Tropics bioregion of Queensland, Australia. It is named after Rudolf Virchow.

Where it grows

It grows in rainforest on Mount Bartle Frere, the Bellenden Ker Range and the eastern edge of the Atherton Tableland up to 1,500 m (4,900 ft) elevation.

Other Ceratopetalum plants

Coachwood · Mountain sycamore · Christmasbush · Ceratopetalum hylandii · Ceratopetalum iugumense · Ceratopetalum macrophyllum · Ceratopetalum succirubrum · Ceratopetalum tetrapterum · Ceratopetalum

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Ceratopetalum virchowii by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.

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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