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Tasmannia stipitata

Tasmannia stipitata
Photo: Poyt448, Peter Woodard, CC BY-SA 4.0

Tasmannia stipitata, northern pepperbush, is a shrub of moist forest and rainforest in eastern Australia, typically 1 to 3 m tall. It is grown in cultivation mainly for its ornamental foliage and bluish-violet berries, and needs cool, moist, shaded conditions.

Family
Winteraceae (Winter family)
Grows as
Shrub
Light
Part shade, Shade
Water
Keep soil consistently moist but not waterlogged, especially in warm weather.
Soil
Moist, well-drained humus-rich soil with plenty of organic matter.
Temperature
10–25 °C; protect from frost and hot dry winds
How easy
Moderate
Native range
New South Wales
Climate
subtropical

About

Tasmannia stipitata, commonly known as northern pepperbush is a flowering plant in the family Winteraceae and is endemic to eastern Australia. It has narrowly lance-shaped to narrowly elliptic leaves and male and female flowers on separate plants, the male flowers with 21 to 65 stamens and the female flowers with 2 to 9 carpels. The fruit is bluish-violet and contains 12 to 15 seeds.

Where it grows

Tasmannia stipitata grows in moist forest and rainforest between Girraween National Park in south-eastern Queensland to Barrington Tops in northern New South Wales, usually at altitudes above 1,000 m (3,300 ft).

Other Drimys plants

Drimys andina · Drimys angustifolia · Drimys brasiliensis · Drimys confertifolia · Drimys granadensis · Drimys roraimensis · Winter's bark · Drimys · Tasmannia glaucifolia · Tasmannia insipida · Mountain pepper · Pepper tree

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Tasmannia stipitata 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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