The open plant encyclopedia
Snap a photo or search by any name to see how to care for it, where it comes from, whether it's safe, and a 3D model you can turn.
The plants people record most in your country, and ones that grow there wild.
Filter by what you want to do, shape, origin, country, care and safety.
Harpullia ramiflora
Also called Cape York Tulipwood
Claudie tulipwood is a small wet-tropical tree (to about 9 m) with large glossy compound leaves and red capsule fruits with yellow arils. It is grown mainly as a street and garden tree in tropical Queensland and needs warm, humid, frost-free conditions.
Harpullia ramiflora, commonly known as the Claudie tulipwood or Cape York tulipwood, is a species of plant in the lychee family Sapindaceae, native to parts of Malesia, New Guinea, and northeast Queensland, Australia. It was first described in 1877, and is now cultivated as a street and garden plant in Australia. It has a conservation status of 'least concern'.
This tree has been widely planted in the suburbs of Cairns, Queensland, particularly in the streets of Smithfield and Trinity Park. It prefers full sun to semi-shade and can tolerate waterlogged soils. It can be propagated from seed.
Harpullia ramiflora is native to the island of Catanduanes in the Philippines, the island of Halmahera and the Aru Islands in the Maluku Islands, New Guinea, and Cape York Peninsula in Australia. It grows in rainforest and gallery forest.
Wing Leaved Tulip · Tulip-wood tree · Harpullia cauliflora · Harpullia cupanioides · Dwarf Harpullia · Blunt Leaved Tulip · Harpullia leichhardtii · Tulipwood · Slender Harpullia · Tulipwood
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Harpullia ramiflora 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.
