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Triplarina bancroftii

Triplarina bancroftii is a small shrub in the myrtle family, known only from two populations in central Queensland, Australia. It is rarely grown outside its native habitat, so care guidance is general and based on related Myrtaceae.

Family
Myrtaceae (Myrtle family)
Grows as
Shrub
Light
Full sun, Part shade
Water
Water regularly while establishing, then allow the top of the soil to dry slightly between waterings.
Soil
Well-drained sandy or loamy soil; it grows naturally in sandy ground.
Temperature
15–30 °C; protect below 5 °C
How easy
Moderate
Native range
Queensland (Burnett)
Climate
subtropical

About

Triplarina bancroftii is a species of flowering plant in the myrtle family, Myrtaceae and is endemic to a restricted area of Queensland. It is a shrub with egg-shaped or elliptic leaves, flowers with five sepals and five relatively small white petals and sixteen to eighteen stamens.

Where it grows

This triplarina is only known from two populations, one in the Cania Gorge National Park and the other 80 km (50 mi) south. It grows in sandy soil with species such as Lophostemon confertus and L. suaveolens.

Other Triplarina plants

Triplarina calophylla · Camphor bush · Triplarina nitchaga · Triplarina nowraensis · Triplarina paludosa · Triplarina volcanica · Triplarina

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Triplarina bancroftii 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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