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Blind Your Eye

Excoecaria dallachyana

Also called Scrub Poison Tree

Blind Your Eye
Photo: Poyt448 Peter Woodard, CC BY-SA 3.0

Blind Your Eye is a slender tree from eastern Australian rainforest, usually found near streams or in drier rainforest edges. It is grown mainly for interest and is best treated with caution because its sap irritates skin and its leaves are toxic.

Family
Euphorbiaceae (Spurge family)
Grows as
Tree
Light
Part shade, Bright indirect
Water
Water regularly during growth and let the top layer dry slightly between waterings.
Soil
Free-draining, moist, fertile soil or a rich general potting mix.
Temperature
18–30 °C; protect below 10 °C
How easy
Moderate
Safety
Toxic: The sap irritates skin and the leaves are toxic if eaten.
Native range
SE. Queensland, NE. New South Wales
Climate
desert or dry shrubland

About

Excoecaria dallachyana, the scrub poison tree or brush poison tree, is a species of plant in the spurge family, Euphorbiaceae. It is found from the Clarence River, New South Wales to Townsville, Queensland in Australia. The habitat is rainforest by streams or in the drier form of rainforest. The leaves are toxic to livestock and the sap is irritating to human skin. It is a slender tree which may reach 15 m (49 ft) in height.

Other Excoecaria plants

Excoecaria acerifolia · Excoecaria acuminata · Gewa · Excoecaria antsingyensis · Excoecaria aporusifolia · Excoecaria bantamensis · Excoecaria benthamiana · Excoecaria borneensis · Pawnbroker Tree · Excoecaria canjoerensis · Excoecaria cochinchinensis · Excoecaria confertiflora

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Excoecaria dallachyana 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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