Plant Details

Scientific Name: Drypetes deplanchei (Drypetes australasica)
  • Common Name: Yellow Tulip
  • Derivation: Drypetes australasica
  • Type: Tree Medium
  • Family: EUPHORBIACEAE
  • Size: to 20 metres
  • Flowers: Yellowish, September to October, Dioecious
  • Fruit: Red/orange Ovoid Drupe to 14 mm dia
  • Vegetation Type: Sub-tropical and Dry Rainforests,
  • Species List: Bush food, Old Tewantin, Batianoff 87, NNP Palm Grove, Dandaloo, Regional Ecosystem 12.8.13. Regional Ecosystem 12.9-10.16. Regional Ecosystem 12.9-10.16x1.

Cultural Notes

Bush food: Mature Fruit eaten raw.

Identification Notes

Branchlets covered with small lenticels Terminal buds not scaly

Associated Fauna

Butterfly host Plant: Common albatross.

  • Drypetes deplanchei (Drypetes australasica)
  • Drypetes deplanchei (Drypetes australasica)
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