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Paratrophis pendulina
Also called Axe Handle Wood, Axehandle Wood, Whalebone Tree
Paratrophis pendulina is a species of flowering plant in the mulberry family, Moraceae. In Australia it is commonly known as whalebone tree, and other common names include the white handlewood, axe-handle wood, grey handlewood and prickly fig. In Hawaii it is known as Hawai'i roughbush or aʻiaʻi in Hawaiian.
It is native to New South Wales and Queensland in eastern Australia, and to New Guinea, the Caroline Islands, Mariana Islands, Norfolk Island, New Caledonia, Vanuatu, Fiji, the Tubuai Islands, and the Hawaiian Islands. It is usually a small tree or shrub, reaching a height of 12 metres (39 feet) with a trunk diameter of 0.6 m (2 ft).
In Australia it is found east of the Great Dividing Range, from near Milton (35° S) in the southern Illawarra district of New South Wales to Cape York Peninsula at Australia's northern tip. It commonly grows in a variety of different types of tropical, subtropical, and warm-temperate rainforest, particularly by streams.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Paratrophis pendulina by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.
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.
