- Pronunciation: bile-SHMEED-ee-a
- Common Name: Hard Bolly Gum, Blush Walnut
- Derivation: beel-SHMEED-ee-ah ob-tuse-ah-FOAL-ee-ah
- Type: Tree Medium
- Family: LAURACEAE
- Size: 30 metres
- Flowers: Cream, bell-shaped Autumn.
- Fruit: Black ellipsoid Drupe 17 mm dia
- Vegetation Type: Sub-tropical and dry Rainforest and along moist scrubby watercourses, better soils of coastal areas.
- Species List: Kennilworth Fig Tree Walk, FI Podberscek, Fraser Island, RE 12.11.10. RE 12.12.16. Batianoff 87, NNP Palm Grove, Kin Kin Scrub, Dandaloo, Stratford Park, Heritage Park
Cultural Notes
Timber: dull pink, fine grained, of moderate weight, used for plywood, indoor work, flooring, building, etc.
Identification Notes
Leaf: usually Obovate, Obtuse with young shoots densely pale silky-hairy. margins often wavy, Blade glossy green above, paler below. Domatia absent
Branchlets and Terminal buds brown and hairy
Flowers have an offensive odour. Inflorescence: longer than Leaves.
Fruit: ellipsoid.
Landscaping Notes
Successfully propagated by Mooloolah Native Nursery
