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Flindersia ifflana
Also called Hickory ash
Cairns hickory is a large rainforest tree native to Papua New Guinea and northern Queensland, growing up to about 35 m tall. It is a timber tree rather than a common garden or houseplant, so care advice is mostly for cultivation in tropical or subtropical gardens.
Flindersia ifflana, commonly known as hickory ash or Cairns hickory, is a species of tree in the family Rutaceae and is native to Papua New Guinea and Queensland. It has pinnate leaves with between four and twelve egg-shaped to elliptical leaflets, panicles of white or cream-coloured flowers and woody fruit studded with rough points.
Hickory ash grows in rainforest and is found in Papua New Guinea and in Queensland where it occurs at altitudes between 30 and 900 m (98 and 2,953 ft) from Cape Grenville to near Atherton.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Flindersia ifflana 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.
