''Alloxylon wickhamii'' is a rainforest tree to tall in the family

Proteaceae The Proteaceae form a family of flowering plants predominantly distributed in the Southern Hemisphere. The family comprises 83 genera with about 1,660 known species. Together with the Platanaceae and Nelumbonaceae, they make up the order Pro ...

. It is

endemic Endemism is the state of a species being found in a single defined geographic location, such as an island, state, nation, country or other defined zone; organisms that are indigenous to a place are not endemic to it if they are also found elsew ...

to the

Wet Tropics of Queensland The Wet Tropics of Queensland World Heritage Site consists of approximately 8,940 km2 of Australian wet tropical forests growing along the north-east Queensland portion of the Great Dividing Range. The Wet Tropics of Queensland meets all f ...

. In the wet tropics it is found growing in various well developed rain forests and apparently is "probably more abundant in upland and mountain rain forests". This substantial rain forest tree species has large leaves (adult: up to , younger: up to ) and bunches of attractive pink-red flowers in Oct–Nov. It is "not as well known as ''

Alloxylon flammeum ''Alloxylon flammeum'', commonly known as the Queensland tree waratah or red silky oak, is a medium-sized tree of the family Proteaceae found in the Queensland tropical rain forests of northeastern Australia. It has shiny green elliptical leaves ...

'' but deserves an equal place in horticulture".

References

wickhamii Proteales of Australia Trees of Australia Plants described in 1874 Taxa named by Ferdinand von Mueller {{Australia-eudicot-stub