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Ternstroemia cherryi
Ternstroemia cherryi, commonly known as cherry beech, is a species of plant in the family Pentaphylacaceae. It is a small rainforest tree native to New Guinea and to tropical parts of the Northern Territory and Queensland in Australia.
This species inhabits rainforest throughout New Guinea (including the Bismarck Archipelago), in the northern part of the Northern Territory in and around Kakadu National Park, and in coastal and sub-coastal Queensland from about Tully to the islands of the Torres Strait. In Australia it occurs at altitudes up to about 800 m (2,600 ft).
In New Guinea, the bark was boiled to make a preparation for treating heartburn and headaches.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Ternstroemia cherryi by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.
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.
