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Leptospermum amboinense is a tree from Malesia and coastal North Queensland, growing to about 9 m in the wild and kept as a bushy shrub up to 3 m in cultivation, valued for its bronze new growth and white summer flowers.
Leptospermum amboinense is a species of tree that is native to Malesia and North Queensland. It has rough bark, sessile, narrow elliptical leaves, white flowers and sessile, conical to hemispherical fruit.
In cultivation, this species is a bushy shrub up to 3 m (9.8 ft) tall and 2.5 m (8 ft 2 in) wide with attractive new growth. It is hardy in the tropics and subtropical areas and can be propagated from seed or cuttings.
This leptospermum is native to Malesia and to North Queensland. In Malesia it is found in Malaya, Sumatra, Borneo, Sulawesi, the Moluccas, Florea and the Philippines. Herbarium records suggest that in grows at lower altitudes than the similar L. javanicum. In Queensland it occurs in coastal areas between Cooktown and Bowen.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Leptospermum amboinense 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.
