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Pseuduvaria froggattii

Pseuduvaria froggattii
Photo: Steve Fitzgerald, CC BY-SA 4.0

Pseuduvaria froggattii is a small understory rainforest tree from northeastern Queensland, Australia, rare and restricted to a small area of the Wet Tropics. It needs shaded, humid, wet tropical rainforest conditions and is not a common garden or houseplant.

Family
Annonaceae (Annon family)
Grows as
Tree
Light
Shade, Part shade
Water
Keep soil consistently moist, as in its natural rainforest habitat, without waterlogging.
Soil
Rich, well-drained, humus-rich forest soil or loam.
Temperature
18–30 °C; protect below 10 °C
How easy
Hard
Native range
NE. Queensland
Climate
wet tropical

About

Pseuduvaria froggattii is a rare species of tree which is restricted to a very small part of northeastern Queensland, Australia. It is a member of the custard apple and soursop family Annonaceae, and was first described in 1887. Despite the small range its status considered to be least concern.

Where it grows

This species is restricted to a small part of Queensland's Wet Tropics, from Melissa Creek near Cape Tribulation in the north, to the area around Black Mountain, southwest of Port Douglas. The total area of occupancy of this species is just 128 km2 (49 sq mi) with 145 observation records.

Other Pseuduvaria plants

Pseuduvaria aurantiaca · Pseuduvaria beccarii · Pseuduvaria borneensis · Pseuduvaria bruneiensis · Pseuduvaria calliura · Pseuduvaria cerina · Pseuduvaria clemensiae · Pseuduvaria coriacea · Pseuduvaria costata · Pseuduvaria cymosa · Pseuduvaria dielsiana · Pseuduvaria fragrans

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Pseuduvaria froggattii 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.

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