Plant Details

Scientific Name: Acronychia pubescens
  • Common Name: Hairy Acronychia
  • Derivation: Acronychia: Gr. acros - end or edge, onyx - claw. (refers to petal points) pubens: L. puber - downy
  • Type: Tree
  • Family: RUTACEAE
  • Size: to 15 metres.
  • Flowers: Greenish, to 8 mm long, in cymes from Leaf Axil. Autumn.
  • Fruit: Berry, white, edible. Said to Fruit abundantly every second year
  • Vegetation Type: Rainforest,
  • Species List: Bush food, Fraser Island, Janet, Stratford Park, Upper Yandina Creek,

Cultural Notes

Bush food: Mature white Fruit eaten (Aromatic).

Identification Notes

Branchlets hairy. Leaves trifoliolate.

 

Associated Fauna

Butterflies: Orchard Swallowtail, Dingy Swallowtail

  • Acronychia pubescens
  • Acronychia pubescens
  • Acronychia pubescens
  • Acronychia pubescens
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