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Coolamon Tree

Syzygium moorei

Coolamon Tree
Photo: Poyt448 Peter Woodard, Public domain

Coolamon is a rare subtropical rainforest tree from northeast New South Wales and southeast Queensland, growing up to about 40 m tall. It is a canopy tree rarely grown in home gardens, best suited to warm, humid, frost-free conditions on deep, fertile soil.

Family
Myrtaceae (Myrtle family)
Grows as
Tree
Light
Part shade
Water
Keep the soil evenly moist, especially when young, and avoid waterlogging.
Soil
Deep, fertile, well-drained loam or volcanic-type soil.
Temperature
18–30 °C; protect below 5 °C
How easy
Hard
Native range
SE. Queensland to NE. New South Wales
Climate
subtropical

About

Syzygium moorei is a rare sub tropical rainforest tree, growing on volcanic soils in the Mount Warning area of north east New South Wales and south east Queensland, Australia. Common names include coolamon, watermelon tree, durobby and robby; it is also called "rose apple" but this can refer to many species of Syzygium.

Other Syzygium plants

Syzygium glaucum · Anise Myrtle · Syzygium antisepticum · Watery roseapple · Clove · Scrub cherry · Boxleaf Eugenia · Syzygium cerasiforme · Syzygium conglomeratum · Bumpy satinash · Java plum · Weeping Myrtle

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Syzygium moorei 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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