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Brittlewood

Claoxylon australe

Brittlewood
Photo: Poyt448 Peter Woodard, CC0
Family
Euphorbiaceae (Spurge family)
Grows as
Tree, Shrub
Native range
SE. Queensland to E. New South Wales
Climate
subtropical

About

Claoxylon australe, known as brittlewood is a common rainforest shrub or understorey tree. Its habitat includes all types of eastern Australian rainforests. The natural range of distribution is from Eden (37° S) in southeastern New South Wales to Bowen (20° S) in tropical Queensland.

Other Claoxylon plants

Claoxylon angustifolium · Claoxylon hillii · Laping Budak · Claoxylon longifolium · Claoxylon

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Claoxylon australe 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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