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Backhousia, photographed by an iNaturalist contributor
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Backhousia

Backhousia

71
trees mapped
0.00%
of all named trees
1
city
28 in
median trunk (70 cm, 5 measured)
5.8 yr
median age (100% have a planting date)

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Backhousia is a genus of aromatic shrubs or trees native to the rainforests and seasonally dry forests of Queensland, New South Wales, and Western Australia. These plants can grow from 5 to 25 meters tall.

Where it grows

Trees in each city's inventory, with the share of that city's named trees this species accounts for.

  1. Melbourne · Australia
    715.8 yr28 in

Traits

Mature height
16.4–82 ft

Trunk diameters across every city: median 28 in, mean 22 in, 90th percentile 34 in. Measured at breast height, as published by each inventory.

Native range

Terrestrial ecoregions where this species is native. Trees in the dataset mostly stand well outside it.

Tropical & Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests

  • Queensland tropical rain forests

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