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Symplocos thwaitesii
Buff hazelwood is a small to medium rainforest tree from eastern Australia, usually grown in the wild in gullies in tropical to warm temperate forest. It is a tree species rather than a common garden or houseplant.
Symplocos thwaitesii, or the buff hazelwood, is a rainforest tree growing in eastern Australia. Seen in tropical, sub-tropical and warm temperate rainforests, often in gullies. Occasionally it grows in cooler situations such as at Monga National Park.
The range of natural distribution is from Orbost (37° S) in the state of Victoria up the east coast of New South Wales to the Atherton Tableland (17° S) in tropical Queensland.
Symplocos adenophylla · Symplocos anamallayana · Symplocos anomala · Symplocos badia · Symplocos baehnii · Symplocos barberi · Symplocos blancae · Symplocos borneensis · Symplocos bractealis · Symplocos breedlovei · Symplocos buxifolia · Symplocos buxifolioides
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Symplocos thwaitesii 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.
