Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Eucryphia moorei
Common name
Eastern Leatherwood, Pinkwood, Plumwood, Stinkwood
Family
Cunoniaceae
Where found
Rainforest and gullies. Coast and ranges.
Notes
Tree or shrub to 30 m high. Bark greyish brown, with longitudinal fissures and cracks, becoming more or less scaly. Branchlets brown- to white-hairy, sometimes becoming hairless. Leaves opposite each other, 5-17 cm long, compound, with 2–13 leaflets, or some leaves simple. Leaflets and simple leaves 1–7 cm long, 5–20 mm wide, leathery, dark green and glossy, or blotched whitish from dried resin, hairless or nearly hairless above, dull and white-hairy below, tips pointed to notched with a short mucro. Flowers with 4 white petals each 8–15 mm long. Sepals joined together and falling as a cap. Flowers in 1–5 flowered clusters. Flowers Jan.–Apr.
Family was Eucryphiaceae.
Vulnerable Vic.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Eucryphia~moorei (accessed 22 January, 2021)
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