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Octamyrtus is a small genus of myrtle-family trees and shrubs from New Guinea and nearby Maluku, rarely grown as garden or house plants. Care advice here is general to the group, since few cultivation details are documented.
Octamyrtus is a group of plants in the myrtle family Myrtaceae described as a genus in 1922. It is native to New Guinea and to the nearby Indonesian Province of Maluku.
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