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Phylica arborea
Also called Island Tree, Island Hardleaf
Phylica arborea, also known as the Island Cape myrtle, is a shrub or small tree found on several isolated oceanic islands in the South Atlantic and Indian oceans.
It is found on various subantarctic islands, including the Tristan da Cunha group and Gough Island in the South Atlantic Ocean, as well as on Amsterdam Island in the southern Indian Ocean.
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Phylica arborea 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.
