Family: Lauraceae
Plant: A tree up to 30m high.
Flowers: Small, white with 6 to 8 lobes about 2mm long, finely hairy and borne in axillary panicles.
Flowering: June-October.
Fruit: Shiny, blue to purple ovoid drupe, about 2cm long,
Leaves: Narrow-elliptic 5-10cm long and 1-3cm wide with a blunt pointed tip and a narrow yellow translucent margin. They are tough, glossy, dark green with a prominent yellow mid-vein above, paler below with a flattened mid-rib and aromatic when crushed,
Bark: Thick, fissured and corky.
Habitat: In rainforest and wet sclerophyll forest, often in gullies near the coast.
Features: Thick, fissured, corky bark. Upper sides of leaves glossy dark green with prominent yellow mid-vein. Blue to purple fruit.
Name:
Endiandra From Greek = inner-anthers
sieberi After the Czech botanist Franz Wilhelm Sieber
Type |
Tree, Shrub |
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Flowers |
Form |
Regular, Cluster |
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Colour(s) |
White |
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Petal/Sepal No. |
6, Many |
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Flowering Month |
6, 7, 8, 9, 10 |
Fruit |
Type |
Drupe |
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Colour |
Blue, Purple |
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Other Features |
Fleshy |
Leaves |
Arrangement |
Alternate, Opposite |
|
Type |
Simple |
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Shape |
Oval |
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Length |
Medium |
|
Margins |
Entire |
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Attachment |
Stalked |
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Other Features |
Tapered-tip, Aromatic, |
|
|
Discolorous |
Bark |
Scaly/Corky, Rough/Furrowed |
|
Habitat |
Rainforest, Wet sclerophyll forest |