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Claoxylon angustifolium

Claoxylon angustifolium
Photo: Steve Fitzgerald, CC BY-SA 4.0

Claoxylon angustifolium, narrow leaf claoxylon, is a shrub or small tree from the wet tropical rainforests of northeastern Queensland, Australia. It is grown mainly as a shade-tolerant understorey plant in warm, humid, sheltered gardens.

Family
Euphorbiaceae (Spurge family)
Grows as
Shrub
Light
Part shade, Shade
Water
Keep soil evenly moist during growth and let the top layer dry slightly between waterings.
Soil
Free-draining, humus-rich loam or a peat-based potting mix.
Temperature
18–30 °C; protect below 10 °C
How easy
Moderate
Native range
NE. & CE. Queensland
Climate
wet tropical

About

Claoxylon angustifolium, commonly known as narrow leaf claoxylon, is a species of flowering plant in the family Euphorbiaceae found only in Queensland, Australia. It is a shrub which will usually grow to a height of about 4 m (13 ft), with long narrow leaves up to 22 cm (8.7 in) by 2 cm (0.79 in). The flowers are small, about 2 mm (0.08 in) diameter, and the fruit are capsules, green when ripe, and about 6 mm (0.24 in) long by 8 mm (0.31 in) wide. It was described in 1865 by Swiss botanist Johannes Müller Argoviensis. Its natural range is from the Mount Windsor National Park west of Mossman Gorge, south to Eungella National Park west of Mackay.

Other Claoxylon plants

Brittlewood · Claoxylon hillii · Laping Budak · Claoxylon longifolium · Claoxylon

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Claoxylon angustifolium 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.

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