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Myristica millepunctata

Myristica millepunctata is a tall rainforest tree from the nutmeg family, native to the Central Highlands of New Guinea at 1,400 to 1,570 m. It is not grown in gardens and is known mainly from its natural montane forest habitat.

Family
Myristicaceae (Myristic family)
Grows as
Tree
Native range
New Guinea (E. Papua)
Climate
wet tropical

About

Myristica millepunctata is a species of plant in the family Myristicaceae. It is a tree endemic to the Central Highlands of New Guinea in Western New Guinea and Papua New Guinea. It is a tall tree which grows 30 to 40 metres tall. It grows in montane and ridge rain forest from 1,400 to 1,570 metres elevation.

Other Myristica plants

Myristica acsmithii · Myristica alba · Myristica andamanica · Myristica arfakensis · Macassar Mace · Myristica atrescens · Myristica basilanica · Bitter Nutmeg · Myristica brachypoda · Myristica brevistipes · Myristica buchneriana · Myristica byssacea

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Myristica millepunctata 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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