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Other species worth seeking may only be available occasionally from specialist nurseries offering native rainforest plants, and if currently grown are probably limited to botanic gardens and enthusiast’s collections. Their wetter rainforest origins suggests they are likely to need more water than J. pseudorhus.

Jagera dasyantha has since been reclassified to a new genus, as Cnesmocarpon dasyantha; a large tree to 25m from wet upland rainforests in NE Qld, with red bristly seed capsules. I have not seen the adult trees, however seedlings and saplings along old logging trails appear quite ornamental, with broad bluish-green leaflets, whitish underneath and red new growth.

Jagera javanica as its name suggests occurs through Indonesia to New Guinea, with an outlying population in NE Qld’s Daintree rainforest, saplings form slender elegant treelets on forest edges, with pinnate leaves to 40cm long.

 
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