Fruiting bodies and leaves. Australian Plant Image Index, photo: Murray Fagg, near Southern Cross, WA

Fruiting bodies and leaves. Photo: Don Wood, Scotia Sanctuary, NSW

Tree. Photo: Don Wood, Scotia Sanctuary, NSW

Young trees. Australian Plant Image Index, photo: Murray Fagg, near Coolgardie, WA

Common Name

Desert Poplar, Native Poplar

Family

Gyrostemonaceae

Notes

Tree or shrub to 10m tall.  Leaves alternating up the stems, 1.5-6cm long, mostly 8-50mm wide, flat, hairless, glaucous.  Male and female flowers usually on different plants.  Flowers tiny (less than 3mm across), with 0 petals, in racemes at the ends of the branchlets or at the bases of the leaves.  Germinates after fire.

Description and photo of fruits in G.M. Cunningham, WE Mulham, PL Milthorpe and J H Leigh (1981 and later printings) Plants of Western New South Wales page 290

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