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Mammea touriga

Mammea touriga
Photo: Wairambar Rainforest, CC BY 4.0

Mammea touriga is a rainforest tree from north-eastern Queensland, Australia, with a very restricted range on the Atherton Tableland. It is rarely grown outside its native area, so care advice draws on general tropical tree knowledge.

Family
Calophyllaceae (Calophyll family)
Grows as
Tree
Light
Part shade, Bright indirect
Water
Keep the soil evenly moist during growth and reduce slightly in cooler months; avoid waterlogging.
Soil
Well-drained, humus-rich soil, ideally a loam or basalt-derived soil.
Temperature
18–30 °C; protect below 10 °C
How easy
Hard
Native range
NE. Queensland
Climate
wet tropical

About

Mammea touriga, also known as brown touriga or alligatorbark, is a species of tree that belongs to the Calophyllaceae. It is native to north-eastern Australia.

Where it grows

The species is endemic to north-eastern Queensland where it has a restricted distribution in the Boonjee area of the Atherton Tableland. It occurs in mature rainforest, often on basalt soils, at elevations of 600–800 m.

Other Mammea plants

African mammyapple · Mammee apple · Mammea glauca · Mammea grandifolia · Mammea immansueta · Mammea malayana · Mammea novoguineensis · Mammea papuana · Mammea papyracea · Mammea siamensis · Mammea suriga · Mammea timorensis

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Mammea touriga 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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