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Phaleria octandra
Dwarf Phaleria is a rainforest shrub or small tree from Indonesia, New Guinea and northern Australia, grown for its showy fragrant white flowers and red fruit. It does best in shade with moist, well-aerated soil.
Phaleria octandra, commonly known as dwarf Phaleria, is a species of plant in the family Thymelaeaceae, native to Indonesia, New Guinea and northern Australia. It is a rainforest shrub that was first described by Carl Linnaeus in 1767, and it has the conservation status of least concern.
Dwarf Phaleria is considered to be an attractive plant for cultivation, due to the dense clusters of showy flowers. It needs shade, aerated soil and plenty of moisture.
The westerly limit of Phaleria octandra's native range is the Indonesian island of Java, then eastward through the Lesser Sunda Islands, Maluku Islands, New Guinea and the Solomon Islands, and south into the Northern Territory and Queensland in Australia. It is found as far south as Sarina, Queensland.
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Phaleria octandra 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.
