Flowers and leaves. Photographer Don Wood, Scotia Sanctuary, NSW

Leaves and flowers, young plant. Photographer Don Wood, Scotia Sanctuary, NSW

Leaves and fruiting bodies. Photo: David Poynter, Friends of Whyalla Conservation Park, SA

Fruiting body and leaves. Photographer Don Wood, Scotia Sanctuary, NSW

Tree. Photographer Don Wood, Scotia Sanctuary, NSW

Bark. Photographer Don Wood, Scotia Sanctuary, NSW

Common Name

Rosewood; Western Rosewood; Bonaree; Bullock-bush

Family

Sapindaceae

Notes

Tree or shrub to 9m tall.  Leaves alternating up the stems, 3.5-14cm long, 4-16mm wide, flat, usually hairy, with straight points.  Flowers sometimes small (less than 3mm across), cream to green, calyx cup-shaped with 5-6 teeth at the top, 0 petals, in clusters of about 1-9 flowers on stalks arising from the bases of the leaves or at the ends of the stems.  Seeds with a red fleshy appendage.

Description and photo of fruiting bodies (as Heterodendrum oleifolium) in G.M. Cunningham, WE Mulham, PL Milthorpe and J H Leigh (1981 and later printings) Plants of Western New South Wales page 474

PlantNET description:   http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Alectryon~oleifolius