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Croton phebalioides

Croton phebalioides
Photo: Mark Marathon, CC BY-SA 3.0
Family
Euphorbiaceae (Spurge family)
Grows as
Shrub, Climber
Native range
E. Queensland to NE. New South Wales
Climate
seasonally dry tropical

About

Croton phebalioides, is a shrub endemic to northern Australia, from Central New South Wales to Cape York Peninsula.

The plant grows as a shrub, 3–4 metres in height, with narrow, strongly discolourous leaves approximately 5 cm in length. The upper leaf is a light to glaucous green, the lower leaf appears silver-white or brown due to a dense covering of scales. The natural habitat of Croton phebalioides is monsoon forest, rainforest and vine thickets, usually in hills of mountains.

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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Croton phebalioides 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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