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Fontainea australis, the southern fontainea, is a rare shrub or small tree from subtropical rainforest in eastern Australia, reaching up to 5 metres. It is a wild rainforest species rather than a common garden or houseplant.
Fontainea australis is a rare rainforest plant from eastern Australia. The common name is southern fontainea.
It grows in sub tropical rainforest at low altitudes on basaltic alluvial soils. Distributed from the Wilsons River (New South Wales) to the Tallebudgera Valley in south eastern Queensland.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Fontainea australis 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.
