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Needle berry
Rhaphidophora australasica
About
Rhaphidophora australasica, commonly known as needle berry, is a plant in the arum family Araceae that is only found in the Wet Tropics bioregion of northeastern Queensland, Australia. It is a semi-epiphytic, robust, herbaceous, root climber reaching about 30 m (98 ft) tall. The dark green leaves are oblanceolate to elliptic and measure up to 40 cm (16 in) long by 14 cm (5.5 in) wide. The inflorescence is a spadix about 6–8 cm (2.4–3.1 in) long, enclosed in a spathe about 13 cm (5.1 in) long.
- Family
- Araceae
Ecology
How it lives
- Propagated by
- Seed
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- Name
- Rhaphidophora australasica
- Slug
- rhaphidophora-australasica
- Kingdom
- Plantae
- Family
- Araceae
- Genus
- Rhaphidophora
- Species
- australasica
- Propagule type
- seed
- Container suitable
- No
- Indoor suitable
- No
- OSSI pledged
- No
- Hazard level
- 1
- Data completeness
- 43
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