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Triplarina nitchaga

Triplarina nitchaga is a small shrub from the Myrtle family, known only from a few localities near Ravenshoe in north Queensland, where it grows in open forest. Little is documented about its cultivation, so it is rarely grown outside its native range.

Family
Myrtaceae (Myrtle family)
Grows as
Shrub
Light
Part shade
Water
Water regularly during dry spells and let the top of the soil dry slightly between waterings.
Soil
Well-drained, slightly acidic soil, such as a loam mixed with leaf litter.
Temperature
15–28 °C; protect from frost.
How easy
Moderate
Native range
NE. Queensland
Climate
seasonally dry tropical

About

Triplarina nitchaga is a species of flowering plant in the myrtle family, Myrtaceae and is endemic to a restricted area of north Queensland. It is a shrub with lance-shaped leaves with the narrower end towards the base, flowers with five sepals, five white petals and seventeen or eighteen stamens.

Where it grows

This triplarina is only known from two localities near Ravenshoe where it grows in open forest.

Other Triplarina plants

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

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Triplarina nitchaga 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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