Plants of South Eastern New South Wales

Santalum acuminatum

Flowers. Photographer Kevin Thiele, WA

Ripe fruit and leaves. Photographer Don Wood, Scotia Sanctuary, western NSW

Tree. Photographer Don Wood, Scotia Sanctuary, western NSW

Common name

Sweet Quandong; Native Peach; Desert Quandong; Quandong

Family

Santalaceae

Where found

Woodland, rocky areas, and stream banks. Western Slopes.

Notes

Shrub or tree to 6 m tall, often suckering from the roots. Fruit fleshy. Bark rough, slightly furrowed. Stems angular, striate, hairless. Leaves opposite each other, 3-9 cm long, 3-15 mm wide, hairless, both surfaces about the same colour, margins flat, tips pointed, often with a curved point when young. Flowers white to pale yellow or green with red to orange centres, with 4 'petals', each 1–2 mm long, in many-flowered branched clusters. Fruit red, rarely yellow, 15–25 mm long, edible.

PlantNET description:   http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Santalum~acuminatum (accessed 6 February, 2021)