Plant Details

Scientific Name: Diospyros ellipticifolia f. australiensis (was Diospyros ellipticifolius var ebenus (was Diospyros major)
  • Common Name: Shiny-leaved Ebony
  • Type: Small Tree
  • Family: EBENACEAE
  • Status: RARE
  • Size: to 4 metres
  • Flowers: White 3 mm, summer
  • Fruit: Yellow brown hairy Globose Berry to 1 cm dia.
  • Vegetation Type: Sub-tropical Rainforest and Ecotonal forest, araucarian dry Vine forest
  • Species List: Bush food, Cooroibah 26.4.09, Old Tewantin, Dandaloo

Cultural Notes

Bush Food: Fruit eaten - best ripened after picking to reduce astringency.

Identification Notes

Leaves finely pointed Alternate. Young Branchlets, petioles and Leaf undersides finely hairy

Associated Fauna

Butterfly host Plant: Cephenes blue.

  • Diospyros ellipticifolia f. australiensis (was Diospyros ellipticifolius var ebenus (was Diospyros major)
  • Diospyros ellipticifolia f. australiensis (was Diospyros ellipticifolius var ebenus (was Diospyros major)
  • Diospyros ellipticifolia f. australiensis (was Diospyros ellipticifolius var ebenus (was Diospyros major)
  • Diospyros ellipticifolia f. australiensis (was Diospyros ellipticifolius var ebenus (was Diospyros major)
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