Plant Details

Scientific Name: Melicope elleryana (was Euodia elleryana)
  • Pronunciation: meel-ee-cope ell-er-ee-AH-nah
  • Common Name: Euodia, Pink Doughwood
  • Type: Tree, Pioneer
  • Family: RUTACEAE
  • Size: 12 metres
  • Flowers: light to dark pink, produced along branches
  • Fruit: Dark brown obovoid cocci,1-1.3 cm long, seeds shining black or dark brown
  • Vegetation Type: Rainforest, wet eucalypt
  • Species List: NLTalks2010, Wooroi Day Use Area Tracks, BSDoonan, Cooloothin Corner, Fraser Island, Mill Point, Johns, Cranks Creek, Upper Yandina Creek, Boreen Point, Leslie Drive Roundabout, Noosa North Shore PS, TAFE, Noosa Banks, BHNR, Noosa River NP, NNS Fern Track, Kin Kin Arboretum, NNS, Wallace Park, Heritage Park, Regional Ecosystem 12.3.5.

Identification Notes

Trunk: Slender with silvery grey Bark
Leaves: trifoliolate.

 

Landscaping Notes

Noosa Council Preferred Species list . Fast growing. Average soils. Surface roots are intrusive and may damage paving.

Used as an ornamental street Tree

Propagation from Seed, ripening July-December, which germinates unpredictably. Flowers at an early age. Tough, fast growing and tolerates wet soils.

Successfully propagated by Coolum Community Native Nursery
Successfully propagated by Tin Can Bay City Farm Nursery
Successfully propagated by Florabunda Bushcare nursery, Woombye
Successfully propagated by Mooloolah Native Nursery
Successfully propagated by Noosa & District Landcare

Associated Fauna

Birds are attracted to flowers and Fruit. Lewin's Honeyeater .

  • Melicope elleryana (was Euodia elleryana)
  • Melicope elleryana (was Euodia elleryana)
  • Melicope elleryana (was Euodia elleryana)
  • Melicope elleryana (was Euodia elleryana)
  • Melicope elleryana (was Euodia elleryana)
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