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Tasmannia vickeriana

Tasmannia vickeriana
Photo: Jane Canaway, CC BY 4.0

Tasmannia vickeriana, known as Baw Baw pepper, is a small shrub endemic to the Baw Baw Range in Victoria, Australia, growing in snow gum woodland at high altitude. It is a rarely cultivated native with male and female flowers on separate plants, so both sexes are needed for fruit.

Family
Winteraceae (Winter family)
Grows as
Shrub
Light
Part shade
Native range
EC. Victoria
Climate
temperate

About

Tasmannia vickeryana, commonly known as Baw Baw pepper, is a species of flowering plant in the family Winteraceae and is endemic to Victoria in Australia. It has narrowly lance-shaped leaves, sometimes with the narrower end towards the base, and male and female flowers on separate plants, the male flowers with 8 to 26 stamens and the female flowers with up to 5 carpels. The fruit is dark red and contains 2 to 5 seeds.

Where it grows

Baw Baw pepper grows in snow gum woodland in the Baw Baw Range at altitudes between 1,300 and 1,500 m (4,300 and 4,900 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 vickeryana 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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