Plants of South Eastern New South Wales

Synoum glandulosum subsp. glandulosum
Scentless rosewood
Meliaceae
Forest, stabilised sand dunes, and gullies. Coast, ranges, and the eastern edge of the tablelands.
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)
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