Plants of South Eastern New South Wales

Endiandra sieberi

Fruit and leaves. Photographer Peter Woodard, Wyrrabbalong National Park near The Entrance

Fallen fruit and seedling. Photographer Peter Woodard, Wyrrabbalong National Park near The Entrance

Bark. Photographer John Tann, Cronulla, Sydney

Common name

Hard corkwood, Pink walnut

Family

Lauraceae

Where found

Forest, forest margins, and stream banks. North of Batemans Bay. Mainly coastal, occasionallly in the ranges.

Notes

Tree or shrub to 30 m tall. Fruit fleshy. Bark, hard, fissured and corky. Large trees sometimes shortly flanged but not buttressed at the base. Young stems with prominent lenticels, densely hairy with brownish hairs, becoming hairless. Leaves aromatic when rubbed, alternating up the stems, sometimes almost opposite each other, 5–10 cm long, 10–30 mm wide, tough, glossy, margins yellowish and translucent; domatia absent. Leaf stalks reddish when fresh. Flowers cream or pinkish, 4-5 mm in diameter, with 6 'petals', hairy with fine hairs. Flowers in branched clusters shorter than or as long as the leaves. Fruit glossy black, oval to oval, 18-30 mm long, ripe Mar.-Aug.

PlantNET description:  http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Endiandra~sieberi  (accessed 12 January, 2021)