Plants of South Eastern New South Wales

Synoum glandulosum subsp. glandulosum

Flowers and leaves. Australian Plant Image Index, photographer Murray Fagg, Murramarang National Park north of Batemans Bay

Flowers and leaf. Photographer Don Wood, Bangalee Reserve, Nowra

Fruit and leaf. Photographer Don Wood, Murramarang National Park north of Nowra

Common name

Scentless rosewood

Family

Meliaceae

Where found

Forest, stabilised sand dunes, and gullies. Coast, ranges, and the eastern edge of the tablelands.

Notes

Tree to 18 m tall. Fruit with a fleshy aril. Bark scaly, dark brown with whitish and greyish patches. Young stems hairy, becoming hairless. Leaves alternating up the stems, 10-30 cm long, compound, with 3-11 leaflets, each 2-12 cm long, 15-40 mm wide, tips usually blunt, margins entire, surfaces hairless except for more or less prominent hairy domatia (handlens/macro app on your mobile phone may be needed). Flowers sweetly scented, apparently bisexual but functionally unisexual with male and female flowers on different plants. Flowers white to pink, with 4 petals each 4-6 mm long. Flowers in branched clusters 2-5 cm long. Flowers Jan.–July. Fruit pinkish fawn to red. Aril fleshy, red, completely covering the seed.

PlantNET description:  http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Synoum~glandulosum (accessed 9 February, 2021)