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Wilkiea macrophylla
Large-leaved wilkiea is a glabrous shrub or small tree of subtropical and tropical rainforest in eastern Australia, grown mainly as a rainforest understorey or specimen plant. Male and female flowers are on separate plants, so both are needed for fruit.
Wilkiea macrophylla, commonly known as large-leaved wilkiea, is a species of flowering plant in the family Monimiaceae, and is endemic to north-eastern Australia. It is a glabrous shrub or small tree with narrowly to broadly elliptic leaves, and male and female flowers on separate plants. Male flowers have 2 pairs of tepals and usually 2 pairs of stamens, and female flowers have 6 or 7 pairs of tepals and 13 to 20 carpels. The fruit is a glossy purplish to olive black drupe.
Large-leaved wilkiea grows in rainforest from 510 to 610 m (1,670 to 2,000 ft) elevation, from central Queensland to the Richmond River in north-eastern New South Wales.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Wilkiea macrophylla 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.
