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Medicosma fareana

Medicosma fareana
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Medicosma fareana, known as white aspen, is a small rainforest tree from north Queensland in the citrus family. It is grown mainly as a shade or understorey tree in warm, humid conditions, and the sources give little cultivation detail.

Family
Rutaceae (Citrus family)
Grows as
Tree
Light
Part shade
Water
Keep the soil evenly moist during the growing season and reduce watering in cooler months.
Soil
Well-drained, humus-rich soil.
Temperature
18–30 °C; protect below 10 °C
How easy
Moderate
Native range
NE. Queensland
Climate
wet tropical

About

Medicosma fareana, commonly known as white aspen, is a species of rainforest small tree in the family Rutaceae and is endemic to north Queensland. It has elliptical leaves and white or cream-coloured flowers borne singly or in small groups in leaf axils.

Where it grows

Medicosma fareana grows in rainforest from near Cooktown to Mount Fox in north Queensland.

Other Medicosma plants

Pinkheart · Medicosma elliptica · Medicosma forsteri · Medicosma glandulosa · Medicosma heterophylla · Medicosma mulgraveana · Medicosma obovata · Medicosma sessiliflora · Medicosma

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Medicosma fareana 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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