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Litsea bennettii is a rainforest tree from the laurel family, native to the mountains of northeast Queensland, Australia. It is grown mainly for conservation and in native plant collections rather than in home gardens, and it needs cool, moist, shaded forest conditions.
Litsea bennettii is a species of plant in the family Lauraceae native to northeast Queensland, Australia. It is a rainforest tree, first described in 1989. It has a conservation status of least concern.
It is restricted to mountain areas above 1,100 m (3,600 ft), where it grows in rainforest on granite based soils. It ranges from Mount Finnegan, near Cooktown, to Hinchinbrook Island.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Litsea bennettii 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.
