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Petalostigma triloculare
Petalostigma triloculare is a small rainforest tree of eastern Australia, growing in drier rainforest, usually on sandy soils. It is a species, not a genus, and is not commonly cultivated as a houseplant.
Petalostigma triloculare, known as the long-leaved bitter bark is a rainforest tree of eastern Australia. It occurs in the drier rainforests, often on sandy soil derived from granite or sandstone, and is sometimes seen on old sand dunes.
This tree is distributed as far south as Woolgoolga in New South Wales, which has an average annual rainfall of 1,657 mm. However, it is also seen west of the Great Dividing Range near Coolatai and Yetman where the average rainfall is only around 640 mm. It grows as far north as Shoalwater Bay near the Tropic of Capricorn in central east Queensland.
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Petalostigma triloculare 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.
