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Daphnandra tenuipes
Daphnandra tenuipes is a small to medium rainforest tree from eastern Australia, known for red new shoots and red flowers. Its key to growing it is providing rich, fertile soil and humid, sheltered conditions similar to its native subtropical rainforest.
Daphnandra tenuipes, commonly known as the socket sassafrass, or red-flowered socketwood, is a rainforest tree in eastern Australia. It grows on the more fertile basaltic and alluvial soils. It is found from near Boorganna Nature Reserve near Taree, New South Wales to just over the border into Queensland at Springbrook National Park. It is a small to medium-sized tree featuring red new shoots and red flowers. It has dark green leaves, which are lanceolate or ovate, and measure 4–13 cm (1.5–5 in) in length and 1.5–3 cm (0.59–1.18 in) wide.
Daphnandra tenuipes was first described by J.R. Perkins in 1901, and still bears its original name.
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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.
