Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Alectryon tomentosus
Common name
Hairy Bird's Eye, Bed-jacket, Woolly Rambutan, Hairy Alectryon
Family
Sapindaceae
Where found
Urban bushland, gardens and roadsides. Sydney area and Blue Mountains.
Occurs naturally in rainforest north from the Hunter Valley.
Notes
Introduced tree to 15 m high. Seeds with fleshy aril. Bark smooth. Leaves, branchlets, and fruit rusty-hiary. Leaves alternating up the stems, 7–20 cm long, compound, with 4–8 leaflets each mostly 3–14 cm long, 10–40 mm wide, margins toothed, tips blunt or pointed. Male and female flowers on the same plant. Flowers pinkish red, 2-4 mm in diameter, calyx shallowly lobed, with 0 petals. Flowers in 1-7 flowered clusters. Seed cases green to greyish, unlobed or 2-3 lobed. Seeds black, with red arils.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Alectryon~tomentosus (accessed 2 January, 2021)
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