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Dillenia alata
Dillenia alata, commonly known as red beech, golden guinea flower or golden guinea tree, is a tree in the Dilleniaceae family, found in New Guinea, and the Northern Territory and Queensland in Australia. It has found some popularity as an ornamental for tropical parks and large gardens due to its colourful flowers and fruit.
This species has "considerable horticultural merit", and the Australian botanist David L. Jones, in his book Rainforest Plants of Australia, said "A striking ornamental, common along stream banks and in swampy soils. The leaves, bark, flowers and fruit are all highly decorative features". In the city of Cairns, Queensland, more than 200 of these trees have been planted across the city by the Cairns Regional Council, mostly in parks and larger gardens.
The species is native to the islands of Waigeo, New Guinea, and the Torres Strait, as well as the Northern Territory and Queensland in Australia. In New Guinea the majority of observations occur in the southernmost region of the island, adjacent to the Torres Strait. In the Northern Territory the species mostly occurs in the northeast of Arnhem Land, while in Queensland it occurs from the Torres Strait islands south along the east coast of Cape York Peninsula to about Cardwell.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Dillenia alata 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.
