Plants of South Eastern New South Wales

Acronychia oblongifolia

Flowering branch. Australian Plant Image Index, photographer Murray Fagg, Australian National Botanic Gardens, Canberra, ACT

Fruiting branch. Australian Plant Image Index, photographer Denise Grieg, Dorrigo

Trunk Australian Plant Image Index, photographer Murray Fagg, Royal Botanic Gardens Mt Annan, near Campbelltown

Common name

White aspen, Yellow-wood, Common acronychia

Family

Rutaceae

Where found

Rainforest and rainforest margins, in regrowth, and near streams. Coast, ranges, and the eastern edge of the tablelands.

Notes

Shrub to tree to 27 m high. Trunks flanged in larger trees. Bark smooth, often blistered or finely wrinkled or fissured. Stems hairless, reddish brown or purplish, lenticels prominent. Leaves aromatic when rubbed, sometimes lemon-scented. Leaves opposite each other, 3–12 cm long, 14–45 mm wide, surfaces hairless, oil dots numerous and obvious, tips blunt to bluntly pointed, and usually notched. Flowers creamy-white, with 4 petals each 5–8 mm long, in few to many-flowered clusters. Flowering: summer-autumn. Fruit fleshy, white, more or less round, mostly 4-lobed.

Rare Vic. Listed in the Flora and Fauna Guarantee Act, Vic.

PlantNET description:  http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Acronychia~oblongifolia (accessed 2 January, 2021)