Plant Details

Scientific Name: Beilschmiedia elliptica
  • Pronunciation: beel-SHMEED-ee-a
  • Common Name: Grey walnut
  • Derivation: Beilschmiedia: honours C.T. Beilschmied -German botanist and chemist elliptica: Leaves like an elipse.
  • Type: Tree Medium
  • Family: LAURACEAE
  • Size: to 30 metres
  • Flowers: Cream, bell-shaped August to October
  • Fruit: Blackish globular Drupe 12 mm dia
  • Vegetation Type: Sub-tropical and dry Rainforest
  • Species List: FI Podberscek, Wooroi Day Use Area Tracks, Wooroi Palm Grove, Fraser Island, Batianoff 87, Upper Yandina Creek, Boreen Point, Kin Kin Scrub, Dandaloo

Identification Notes

Bluish/grey green sheen on the Leaves Terminal buds brown and downy Domatia absent

  • Beilschmiedia elliptica
  • Beilschmiedia elliptica
  • Beilschmiedia elliptica
  • Beilschmiedia elliptica
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