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Nothofagus pseudoresinosa

Nothofagus pseudoresinosa
Photo: The New York Botanical Garden, CC BY 4.0

Nothofagus pseudoresinosa is a montane forest tree endemic to Papua New Guinea, growing in cool, wet rainforest at high elevation. It is not a garden or houseplant species, so care details below are mostly descriptive rather than practical growing advice.

Family
Nothofagaceae (Nothofag family)
Grows as
Tree
Light
Part shade
Water
Grows in wet montane rainforest, so it needs consistently moist conditions in its native habitat.
Temperature
Cool montane conditions, roughly 2,500 to 2,750 m elevation in its native range; not suited to hot lowland conditions.
Native range
Papua New Guinea
Climate
wet tropical

About

Nothofagus pseudoresinosa is a species of tree in the family Nothofagaceae. It is endemic to Papua New Guinea. It grows in montane rain forests from 2,500 to 2,750 meters elevation in central and southeastern Papua New Guinea.

Other Nothofagus plants

Nothofagus aequilateralis · Nothofagus alessandrii · Rauli · Antarctic Beech · Nothofagus balansae · Nothofagus baumanniae · Nothofagus beardmorensis · Magellan's Beech · Nothofagus brassii · Nothofagus carrii · Mountain Beech · Nothofagus codonandra

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Nothofagus pseudoresinosa 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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