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Gouania australiana is a climbing vine in the buckthorn family, native to lowland rainforest in Queensland's Wet Tropics. It grows best in warm, humid, shaded forest conditions and climbs using tendrils.
Gouania australiana is a species of plant in the family Rhamnaceae, first described in 1864. It is native to the Wet Tropics bioregion of Queensland, Australia, and has a conservation status of least concern.
It is endemic to the Wet Tropics area of Queensland and grows in lowland rainforest between the Daintree River in the north to Tully in the south. The altitudinal range is from near sea level to about 300 m (980 ft).
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Gouania australiana 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.
