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Erythroxylum australe

Erythroxylum australe
Photo: Mark Marathon, CC BY-SA 4.0

Erythroxylum australe is a native shrub or small tree of northern Australia, found from Queensland to northern New South Wales. It is grown mainly as a garden or revegetation plant in warm, frost-free areas, and its key to growing is giving it warm, sheltered conditions with moderate water.

Family
Erythroxylaceae (Erythroxyl family)
Grows as
Tree, Shrub, Climber
Light
Part shade, Full sun
Water
Water regularly while establishing, then let the top of the soil dry out between waterings.
Soil
Well-drained loam or sandy soil, tolerant of poor soils.
Temperature
18–30 °C; protect below 5 °C
How easy
Moderate
Native range
Queensland to NE. New South Wales
Climate
seasonally dry tropical

About

Erythroxylum australe is a shrub or small tree endemic to northern Australia. The plant is known by a variety of names including Brigalow erythroxylon shrub and dogwood (unrelated to Cornus).

The plant grows in a wide variety of habitats in subcoastal and coastal regions, ranging from dry rainforest and vine thickets to open savanna woodland.

Other Erythroxylum plants

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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Erythroxylum australe 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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