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Endospermum myrmecophilum
Also called Toywood
Endospermum myrmecophilum is a large rainforest tree from New Guinea and northern Australia, with hollow branches inhabited by ants. It is grown mainly for shade and timber in tropical gardens, and needs warm, humid, moist conditions.
Endospermum myrmecophilum, commonly known as moon tree or toywood, is a species of plant in the family Euphorbiaceae. It is native to New Guinea and to the Northern Territory and Queensland, Australia. It was first described in 1947 by Lindsay Stuart Smith and it has a conservation status of least concern.
In Australia, this species is found in the northwest of the Northern Territory, and from Mission Beach to the top of Cape York Peninsula in Queensland. In New Guinea it occurs mostly in the eastern parts of Papua New Guinea. It grows in and on the margins of rainforest, in swamps and alluvial forest, and has a preference for sandy loams. It is found from sea level up to 150 m (490 ft) in Australia and up to 460 m (1,510 ft) in New Guinea.
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Endospermum myrmecophilum 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.
