Lophostemon suaveolens, commonly known as swamp mahogany, swamp box or swamp turpentine, is a species of flowering plant in the clove and eucalyptus family Myrtaceae, native to New Guinea and Australia. In Australia, it occurs on the east coast, from north of the Hunter River in New South Wales, through to the top of Cape York Peninsula in Queensland. It grows in sclerophyll forest, swamp forest, gallery forest, and the margins of rainforests.
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Is it poisonous?
We have no record of Swamp box being toxic, poisonous or venomous. That is not proof that it is safe. Never eat, touch or handle a wild plant, mushroom or animal on the strength of an identification; ask someone qualified.
Easily confused with
- Lophostemon confertus
- Lophostemon lactifluus
- Syncarpia glomulifera
- Lophostemon grandiflorus
- Corymbia torelliana
Classification
- Kingdom
- Plantae
- Phylum
- Tracheophyta
- Class
- Magnoliopsida
- Order
- Myrtales
- Family
- Myrtaceae
- Genus
- Lophostemon
- Species
- Lophostemon suaveolens
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