Family: Cunoniaceae
Plant: A shrub or small tree usually 2-4m high although in the rainforest it can be taller.
Flowers: Small, star-like flowers with 5 creamy white sepals (no petals) in dense axillary panicles. The sepals later enlarge to 12mm long and turn red.
Flowering: October-January.
Fruit: Dry nut surrounded by an enlarged red calyx.
Leaves: Opposite and trifoliate with lanceolate finely toothed leaflets 3-8cm long and 5-30mm wide.
Habitat: In dry sclerophyll forest on slopes and in gullies.
Features: Opposite, trifoliate leaves. Persistent red calyces.
Name:
Ceratopetalum
From Latin = petals like anthers
Gummifermum
From Latin gummifera = gum bearing.
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Type |
Tree, Shrub |
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Flowers |
Form |
Regular, Cluster |
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Colour(s) |
White, Red |
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Petal/Sepal No. |
5 |
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Flowering Month |
1, 10, 11, 12 |
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Fruit |
Type |
Other |
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Colour |
Brown, Red |
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Other Features |
- |
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Leaves |
Arrangement |
Opposite |
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Type |
Compound |
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Shape |
Oval |
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Length |
Short, Medium |
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Margins |
Toothed/Serrated |
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Attachment |
Stalked |
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Other Features |
- |
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Bark |
- |
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Habitat |
Rainforest, Dry sclerophyll forest |
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