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Hedycarya loxocarya
Yellow beech is a small to medium rainforest tree native to north-eastern Queensland, grown mainly for its shade and native habitat value rather than as a houseplant. It needs a sheltered, moist, shaded setting similar to the rainforest edges where it grows.
Hedycarya loxocarya, commonly known as yellow beech is a species of flowering plant in the family Monimiaceae, and is endemic to north-eastern Queensland. It is a small to medium tree with egg-shaped to elliptic leaves, and male and female flowers on separate plants. Male flowers are borne in clusters of 5 to 9 and have 8 tepals and more than 60 stamens and female flowers have 6 tepals and about 30 carpels. The fruit is a bright red, oval drupe.
Hedycarya loxocarya grows in rainforest or the edges of tall open forest, and is endemic to north-eastern Queensland from south of Cooktown to Paluma Range National Park, at altitudes between 350 and 1,150 m (1,150 and 3,770 ft).
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Hedycarya loxocarya 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.
