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Dodonaea megazyga

Dodonaea megazyga
Photo: Murray Fagg, CC BY 3.0 au

Dodonaea megazyga is an erect, dioecious shrub or small tree from eastern Australia, growing up to about 5 m, found in forest and near-rainforest edges. It is grown as an ornamental and is best kept in a sunny to part-shaded, well-drained spot.

Family
Sapindaceae (Soapberry & maple family)
Grows as
Shrub
Light
Full sun, Part shade
Water
Water regularly while establishing, then let the top of the soil dry slightly between waterings.
Soil
Well-drained, moist loam or sandy loam
Temperature
10–30 °C; protect from frost
How easy
Moderate
Native range
SE. Queensland to E. New South Wales
Climate
subtropical

About

Dodonaea megazyga is a species of plant in the family Sapindaceae and is endemic to eastern Australia. It is an erect shrub or small shrub with imparipinnate leaves with usually 19 to 31 lance-shaped leaflets, flowers arranged in cymes, the flowers with three or four sepals and eight stamens, and capsules with 3 wings.

Where it grows

This species of Dodonaea grows in forest or near rainforest from south-east Queensland to the Wollemi National Park area of New South Wales.

Other Dodonaea plants

Dodonaea adenophora · Dodonaea amblyophylla · Dodonaea amplisemina · Coast Hop Bush · Dodonaea arnhemica · Dodonaea barklyana · Crinkled Hop Bush · Dodonaea boroniifolia · Dodonaea bursariifolia · Dodonaea caespitosa · Camfield's Hop Bush · Horny Hop Bush

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Dodonaea megazyga 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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