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White Beech

Gmelina dalrympleana

Also called Grey Teak

In Singapore: Dalrymple's White Beech, Grey Teak (Grown in Singapore)

White Beech
Photo: Steve Fitzgerald, CC BY-SA 4.0

White Beech is a tropical tree of moist, swampy ground and rainforest margins, native to New Guinea and northern Queensland. It grows best with constant moisture and warm, humid conditions.

Family
Lamiaceae (Mint family)
Grows as
Tree
Light
Part shade, Bright indirect
Water
Keep the soil consistently moist and never let it dry out completely.
Soil
Rich, moist, well-drained loam or a peaty mix.
Temperature
18–32 °C; protect below 10 °C
How easy
Moderate
Native range
New Guinea to N. & NE. Queensland
Climate
wet tropical

About

Gmelina dalrympleana is a species of plant in the family Lamiaceae. A tree of moist and swampy areas, sometimes on the margins of rainforests. It is found growing in Papua New Guinea and tropical Queensland, in Australia.

Other Gmelina plants

Gumhar · Gmelina hainanensis · Wild sage

[Contains information from Leaf Area Index (LAI) and Heritage Trees from data.gov.sg (National Parks Board), made available under the terms of the Singapore Open Data Licence version 1.0]

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Gmelina dalrympleana 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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