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Gossia floribunda
Cape ironwood is a small understorey shrub or tree from wet tropical forests of New Guinea and northern Queensland, grown mainly for its abundant small white flowers. It needs warm, humid, shaded or lightly shaded conditions to do well.
Gossia floribunda or Cape ironwood species of plant in the Myrtaceae family. It is a understorey plant growing to a height of 1 to 6 m (3 ft 3 in to 19 ft 8 in). Found in Cape York Peninsula Australia and also in New Guinea. Small white flowers form in abundance.
The species was first described as Backhousia floribunda in 1984 by Andrew John Scott. In 2003 Neil Snow, Gordon Guymer and G. Sawvel re-assigned to the genus, Gossia, to give its currently accepted name, Gossia floribunda.
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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.
