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Hypsophila dielsiana

Hypsophila dielsiana
Photo: Kai Squires, CC BY 4.0

Hypsophila dielsiana is a small rainforest tree up to about 10 m tall, native only to the Wet Tropics of northeast Queensland, Australia. It is not a commonly cultivated plant, so care guidance is limited and mostly based on its wet-tropical native habitat.

Family
Celastraceae (Celastr family)
Grows as
Tree
Light
Part shade
Water
Keep the soil evenly moist during growth and avoid letting it dry out completely.
Soil
Well-drained, humus-rich soil or a peat-based potting mix.
Temperature
18–28 °C; protect below 10 °C
Native range
NE. Queensland
Climate
wet tropical

About

Hypsophila dielsiana is a small tree to 10 m (33 ft) in the family Celastraceae, found only in the Wet Tropics bioregion of Queensland, Australia. It was first described by the German botanist Ludwig Eduard Theodor Loesener in 1903.

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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Hypsophila dielsiana 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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