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Ricinocarpos caniana

Ricinocarpos caniana
Photo: Murray Fagg, CC BY 3.0 au

Ricinocarpos caniana is a small erect shrub of the spurge family, endemic to a restricted area of south-eastern Queensland, Australia. It is seldom grown and is known mainly from its native forest habitat.

Family
Euphorbiaceae (Spurge family)
Grows as
Shrub
Light
Part shade
Water
Water regularly while establishing, then allow the top of the soil to dry slightly between waterings.
Soil
Well-drained, sandy or gritty soil.
Temperature
Frost-tender; suited to subtropical conditions, protect below about 0 °C.
How easy
Hard

About

Ricinocarpos caniana is a species of flowering plant in the family Euphorbiaceae and is endemic to a restricted area of south-eastern Queensland. It is an erect monoecious or dioecious shrub with linear leaves and white flowers, arranged either singly, with two to five male flowers, or a single female flower surrounded by up to four male flowers.

Where it grows

This species is only known from the type location in south-eastern Queensland, where it grows in forest with a dense shrubby understorey, between sandstone rocks on a steep scree slope.

Other Ricinocarpos plants

Ricinocarpos bowmanii · Ricinocarpos brevis · Ricinocarpos crispatus · Ricinocarpos cyanescens · Ricinocarpos glaucus · Ricinocarpos gloria-medii · Ricinocarpos graniticus · Ricinocarpos ledifolius · Ricinocarpos linearifolius · Ricinocarpos marginatus · Ricinocarpos megalocarpus · Ricinocarpos muricatus

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Ricinocarpos caniana 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.

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