Plant Details

Scientific Name: Endiandra sieberi
  • Pronunciation: en-dee-AND-rah see-BURR-ee
  • Common Name: Corkwood, Tell
  • Derivation: Endiandra: Gr. endou - within, andros - man (refers to inner series of stamens in the Flower) sieberi: with at least 40 plants named after him, FW Sieber, a botanist from Prague, collected plants in NSW for 7 months in 1823
  • Type: Tree Medium
  • Family: LAURACEAE
  • Size: to 30 metres
  • Flowers: White in short panicles from Leaf Axil June to October
  • Fruit: Purple/black Ovoid Drupe 2 cm long
  • Vegetation Type: Seacoast, sandy Wallum, Sub-tropical and lowland Rainforest,
  • Species List: FI Podberscek, Boreen Point Caravan Park, NNP Palm Grove, Cooloothin, Wooroi Day Use Area Tracks, NNP Parkedge/Alex, NNP service road, Cooroibah 26.4.09, Wooroi Palm Grove, Fraser Island, Johns, Batianoff 87, NNP Viewland/Brunjes, Boreen Point, TAFE, BHNR, NNP Tanglewood, Noosa Banks, Noosa River NP, NNS, Heritage Park, Regional Ecosystem 12.2.5. Regional Ecosystem 12.3.5. Regional Ecosystem 12.9-10.l.

Identification Notes

Flower: greenish, six-Lobed in short panicles from Leaf axils; 

Branchlets, petioles and Terminal buds reddish; 

LeafAromaticDomatia absent; midrib and Leaf margins yellowish.

Landscaping Notes

Successfully propagated by Coolum Community Native Nursery.

Successfully propagated by Tin Can Bay City Farm Nursery.

Associated Fauna

Butterfly host Plant: Eastern flat.

  • Endiandra sieberi
  • Endiandra sieberi
  • Endiandra sieberi
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