Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Euroschinus falcatus var. falcatus
Common name
Ribbonwood, Blush cudgerie, Chinaman's cedar, Pink poplar
Family
Anarcardiaceae
Where found
Forest. Coastal north from Jervis Bay.
Notes
Tree to 45 m tall. Fruit fleshy. Bark brown, shallowly fissured to finely scaly. Branchlets hairy to hairless. Leaves alternating up the stems, 12–30 cm long; compound, with 4–14 leaflets, each 3.5–10 cm long, 10–80 mm wide, tips pointed, bases curved, one side longer than the other, upper surface glossy, both surfaces more or less hairless, sometimes with hairy domatia on lower surface (handlens/macro app on your mobile phone needed). Male, female, and bisexual flowers. Flowers about 6 mm in diameter, with 5 white to pink petals, in open branched clusters 5-15 cm long. Fruit purple-black, at first with a waxy bloom, about 7 mm long..
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=in&name=Euroschinus~falcatus~var.+falcatus (accessed 17 January, 2021)
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