Plants of South Eastern New South Wales

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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)