Endiandra sieberi

Corkwood

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

Search Criteria

 

Type

Tree, Shrub

Flowers

Form

Regular, Cluster

 

Colour(s)

White

 

Petal/Sepal No.

6, Many

 

Flowering Month

6, 7, 8, 9, 10

Fruit

Type       

Drupe

 

Colour

Blue, Purple

 

Other Features

Fleshy

Leaves

Arrangement

Alternate, Opposite

 

Type       

Simple

 

Shape

Oval

 

Length    

Medium

 

Margins  

Entire

 

Attachment

Stalked   

 

Other Features

Tapered-tip, Aromatic,

 

 

Discolorous

Bark

Scaly/Corky, Rough/Furrowed

Habitat            

Rainforest, Wet sclerophyll forest