Plants of South Eastern New South Wales

Pararchidendron pruinosum var. pruinosum

Flower head, flower buds, and leaves. Australian Plant Image Index, photographer Murray Fagg, Adelaide Botanic Gardens, SA

Flower, flower bud, and leaves. Australian Plant Image Index, photographer Murray Fagg, Australian National Botanic Gardens nursery, Canberra, ACT

Pods and leaves. Australian Plant Image Index, photographer R Hotchkiss, Australian National Botanic Gardens, Canberra, ACT

Tree. Australian Plant Image Index, photographer Murray Fagg, Rockhampton Botanic Gardens, Qld 

Common name

Snow wood, Tulip siris, Stinkwood

Family

Fabaceae

Where found

Forest and near streams. Coast and ranges north from the Nowra district.

Notes

Tree or shrub to 20 m tall. Bark smooth with corky blisters, becoming rough with age. Stems hairy, remaining hairy or sometimes becoming hairless. Leaves alternating up the stems, compound, rachis 2-15 cm long, with 2-8 pinnae, with a gland between the upper pair of pinnae; leaflets 5-11 per pinna, 20-60 per leaf, the leaflets 2-8 cm long, 10-30 mm wide, tips with a small mucro, margins entire, surfaces more or less hairy or sometimes becoming hairless. Flowers fragrant. Flowers greenish white, turning yellow with age, corolla cylindrical, 4–6 mm long. with 5 petals stamens 9-13 mm long, white. Flowers in many-flowered heads. Flower heads single, paired, or several on short lateral branches. Pod yellow to orange outside, red or orange inside, visible when the pod opens, 8–12 cm long, 10–20 mm wide. Seeds black. Flowers Spring to Summer.

Family was Mimosaceae.

PlantNET description:  http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Pararchidendron~pruinosum (accessed 29 January, 2021)