This small tree has a smooth tan-coloured trunk and slender spreading branches that form a dense rounded crown. It has dark green broad lanced-shaped leaves and the small cup-shaped white flowers appear in clusters during spring.

Hardiness zones 10 to 12

Tristaniopsis exiliflorais naturally found in Australia growing in northern Queensland in rainforest margins in damp to well drained organic rich soils. It prefers an open sunny humid position and is frost and drought tender.

Kanuka Box is grown for its rounded bushy habit and is planted in parks and small gardens on the coast and inland. It is used along borders for screening or as a small specimen tree or around a pond establishing in 4 to 7 years. It may also be used as a street tree where there are no wires. ID 2991

Tristaniopsis(tres-tan-ee-OP-sis) exiliflora(ek-ee-lee-FOL-ra)

Myrtaceae(mir-TAY-see-ee)
Myrtle, Eucalyptus, Clove and Guava Family