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Litsea leefeana
Also called Bolly beech
Litsea leefeana is a small to medium rainforest tree of tropical Queensland, Australia, in the laurel family, grown mainly for its attractive leaf veining. It is a species, sometimes called brown bollywood or bolly beech, and it needs warm, humid, shaded conditions with well-drained soil.
Litsea leefeana, known as the brown bolly gum or brown bollywood is a rainforest tree in the laurel family. A small to medium-sized tree endemic to the rainforests of tropical Queensland, Australia.
The specific epithet is named after a Mr. Leefe, a botanical collector from the Kennedy district of northern Queensland. It is one of eleven species in the large Asian genus Litsea to reach Australia.
Litsea accedens · Round-leaved Bollywood · Engkala · Litsea umbellata
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Litsea leefeana 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.
