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Corymbia novoguinensis

Corymbia novoguinensis is a tree of coastal wet tropical forest, growing up to about 25 m, found in southern New Guinea, the Torres Strait Islands and northern Cape York. It is a species of eucalypt-like Myrtaceae rarely grown outside its native range, so care guidance is general.

Family
Myrtaceae (Myrtle family)
Grows as
Tree
Light
Full sun
Water
Water regularly while establishing, then tolerate wet-season rain and dry spells once rooted.
Soil
Well-drained sandy or loamy soil; tolerates poor soils.
Temperature
20–32 °C; protect below 5 °C
How easy
Moderate
Native range
S. New Guinea to N. Queensland
Climate
wet tropical

About

Corymbia novoguinensis is a species of tree that is native to New Guinea, some Torres Strait Island and the Cape York Peninsula. It has rough bark on the trunk and branches, lance-shaped adult leaves, flower buds in groups of seven, creamy white flowers and urn-shaped to barrel-shaped fruit.

Where it grows

This species grows in coastal area of southern Papua New Guinea, south-eastern Irian Jaya, some Torres Strait Islands and the northern part of the Cape York Peninsula.

Other Corymbia plants

Scraggy Bloodwood · Range Bloodwood · Corymbia aparrerinja · Corymbia arafurica · Kimberley Bloodwood · Katherine Gorge Bloodwood · Corymbia aspera · Corymbia aureola · Corymbia bella · Corymbia blakei · Glossy Leaved Bloodwood · Yellow Bloodwood

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Corymbia novoguinensis 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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