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Decaspermum humile
Decaspermum humile, the silky or brown myrtle, is a shrub or small tree from Australia and Asia with glossy dark foliage and attractive pink new leaves. It is grown mainly for its ornamental crown and can be kept in a tub or indoors.
Decaspermum humile, commonly known as the silky myrtle, is a tree from Australia and Asia. It can be used as bush food, as indicated by the alternate common name of currant myrtle. The tree features an attractive dark glossy crown. The new pink leaves with silvery hairs are particularly appealing.
The attractive furrowed bark, glossy foliage and fragrant flowers give the species horticultural potential. It is suitable as an indoor plant or in a tub planting.
The habitat is the drier rainforests, usually on shallow rocky soils of a volcanic origin. Common Australian associate species are the python tree and scrub ironwood. In Australia it is found from as far south as Ourimbah, New South Wales, up to northern Queensland, and is also found in Southeast Asia and India. It is one of two members of its genus to reach Australia, the other being the extremely rare Decaspermum struckoilicum.
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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.
