Ngaio
Myoporum laetum G.Forst.
- light
- Full sun
- water
- —
- tall
- 8.0 m
- wide
- 3.5 m
Scrophulariaceae
Also called Mousehole tree, Ngaio tree
Formerly Myoporum crystallinum, Myoporum pubescens
When it flowers
Not known yet in the tropics: too few flowering observations to read a season from.
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Something wrong with it?About it
- Grows as
- TreeKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- SubtropicalKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- New ZealandKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Light
- Full sun (6 h or more)Read from Wikipedia, one source
- Height
- 8.0 mRead from Wikipedia and Plants for a Future, checked: the middle of what its sources sayHalfway between its 2 sources, which differ. Sources differ: Wikipedia 10–10 m; Plants for a Future 6–6 m
- Spread
- 3.5 mRead from Wikipedia and Plants for a Future, checked: the middle of what its sources sayHalfway between its 2 sources, which differ. Sources differ: Wikipedia 4–4 m; Plants for a Future 3–3 m
- Flowers
- White, purpleRead from Wikipedia, one source
- Coldest it survives
- 0 °C (USDA zone 10a)Read from Plants for a Future, one source
Not known yet: water, heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (3)
- Spanish
- Gandula, Gandul, mióporo
- Portuguese
- mióporo
- Chinese
- 海茵芋
Where this comes from
- Wikidata, read 2026-10-25, CC0-1.0
- Kew's checklist, read 2026-10-24, CC-BY-4.0
- Wikipedia, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Plants for a Future, read 2026-10-26, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-25, CC BY-SA 3.0
- 3D model: Myoporum laetum (built for Vanagrha) by Vanagrha, own
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