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Xanthostemon whitei
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Xanthostemon whitei

Xanthostemon whitei, commonly known as Atherton penda or red penda, is a species of plants in the clove and eucalyptus family Myrtaceae found only in the Wet Tropics bioregion of Queensland, Australia. It is a large evergreen rainforest tree up to 45 m (148 ft) tall and a trunk diameter of up to 3 m (9.8 ft). Old trees have large buttresses and the trunk is marked by small hollows where bark has been shed. It was first described (informally)...

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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 488754.