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Vitex lignum-vitae
Vitex lignum-vitae, known as yellow hollywood or satinwood, is a rainforest tree of eastern Australia and New Guinea that can reach 30 m. It is a tree rather than a houseplant, so the key to growing it is giving it space, humid sub-tropical conditions and a moist but free-draining site.
Vitex lignum-vitae, known in Australia as yellow hollywood or "lignum-vitae" (also used for other species), is a rainforest tree of eastern Australia. The natural range of distribution is in dry, sub-tropical or tropical rainforest from the Richmond River, New South Wales to Cape York Peninsula at the northernmost tip of Australia. It also occurs in New Guinea. Lignum vitae is Latin for "wood of life".
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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.
