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Quandong
Quandong, quandang or quondong is a common name for the species ''Santalum acuminatum'' (desert, sweet, Western quandong), especially its edible fruit, but may also refer to: * ''Aceratium concinnum'' (highroot quandong) * ''Peripentadenia mearsii'' (buff, grey quandong) * ''Elaeocarpus angustifolius'' (blue quandong) * ''Elaeocarpus arnhemicus'' (Arnhem Land, bony quandong) * ''Elaeocarpus bancroftii'' (Kuranda quandong) * ''Elaeocarpus coorangooloo'' (brown quandong) * ''Elaeocarpus eumundi'' (eumundi, smooth-leaved quandong) * ''Elaeocarpus ferruginiflorus'' (rusty leaf quandong) * ''Elaeocarpus foveolatus'' (white, Northern quandong) * ''Elaeocarpus grandis'' (brush, blue, white quandong; quandong) * ''Elaeocarpus holopetalus'' (mountain quandong) * ''Elaeocarpus johnsonii'' (Kuranda quandong) * ''Elaeocarpus kirtonii'' (brown-hearted quandong) * ''Elaeocarpus kirtonii'' (white quandong) * ''Elaeocarpus largiflorens'' (tropical quandong) * ''Elaeocarpus obovatus'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Santalum Acuminatum
''Santalum acuminatum'', the desert quandong, is a hemiparasitic plant in the sandalwood family, Santalaceae, (Native to Australia) which is widely dispersed throughout the central deserts and southern areas of Australia. The species, especially its edible fruit, is also commonly referred to as quandong or native peach. The use of the fruit as an exotic flavouring, one of the best known bush tucker (bush food), has led to the attempted domestication of the species. Desert quandong is an evergreen tree, its fruit can be stewed to make pie filling for quandong pies or made into a fruit juice drink. The seed (kernel) inside the tough shell can be extracted to be crushed into a paste then be used on sore gums or an oral gum boil to ease the pain. Because it is one of the few drought-tolerant fruit trees in far-west New South Wales, it is popular to grow among many Aboriginal communities and the non-Indigenous Australians who are aware of it. Description ''Santalum acuminatum'' gro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elaeocarpus Eumundi
''Elaeocarpus eumundi'', commonly known as Eumundi quandong, or smooth-leaved quandong, is a species of flowering plant in the family Elaeocarpaceae and is endemic to north-eastern Australia. It is a mid-sized tree with egg-shaped to lance-shaped leaves, racemes of cream-coloured flowers and blue fruit. It grows in rainforest from the Cape York Peninsula in Queensland to north-eastern New South Wales. Description ''Elaeocarpus eumundi'' is a tree that typically grows to a height of with fibrous bark, and sometimes has buttress roots at the base of the trunk. The leaves are mostly clustered near the end of the branchlets, elliptic to egg-shaped or lance-shaped with the narrower end towards the base, long and wide on a petiole long. The leaves sometimes have teeth on the edges, but mostly near the tip. The midvein on the upper surface is prominent and the leaves turn yellow rather than red, as they age. The flowers are borne in groups of up to eight on hairy pedicels long. T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elaeocarpus Grandis
''Elaeocarpus grandis'', commonly known as the blue quandong, silver quandong or blue fig, is a species of flowering plant in the family Elaeocarpaceae which was first described in 1860. It is a large buttress root, buttressed tree native to the coastal rainforests of northeastern Australia. The validity of this taxon is disputed, with some authorities accepting it and others presenting it as ''Elaeocarpus angustifolius''. Description ''Elaeocarpus grandis'' is a large tree that may grow to a height of . The trunk is usually straight and cylindrical with pale grey bark marked by vertical lines. Buttress roots are present even on smaller trees, becoming large and elaborate on older trees. The crown is sparse and open, the branches layered, with the leaves clustered towards the ends of the twigs. The leaves are bright green above and paler below, turning bright red before falling; it is common to see red leaves in the canopy at any time of year. The leaves are Glossary of leaf mo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peripentadenia Mearsii
''Peripentadenia mearsii'', commonly known as the buff quandong or grey quandong, is a plant in the family Elaeocarpaceae endemic to a small part of northeastern Queensland, Australia. It is usually seen as a multistemmed tree, and the habitat is tropical rainforest. Description ''Peripentadenia mearsii'' is a tree up to tall. The leaves are dark green above and paler below with toothed margins. They measure up to long by wide and are held on a petiole about long. The white flowers have 5 petals about long by wide, each with several lobes at their apices. The fruits are or ovoid capsules about long by wide, containing a single brown seed enclosed in a red aril. Phenology Flowering occurs in October, and the fruit ripen around December to March. Taxonomy This species was first described (as ''Actephila mearsii'') by the Australian botanist Cyril Tenison White in 1938, and published in 1939. White's description was based on samples of fruit and leaves only, and he pla ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elaeocarpus Angustifolius
''Elaeocarpus angustifolius'' is a species of flowering plant in the family Elaeocarpaceae and occurs from India to New Caledonia and northern Australia. Common synonyms are ''E. ganitrus'' and ''E. sphaericus''. It is a large evergreen tree, often with buttress roots, and has leaves with wavy serrations, creamy white flowers and more or less spherical bright blue drupe fruit. In English, the tree is known as utrasum bean tree in India. In Sri Lanka recorded names are woodenbegar and Indian bead tree. It is simply known as elaeocarpus in the Northern Territory of Australia. Other names used for this tree in Australia are Indian oil fruit and genitri. In Hawaii it (or the possible synonym ''E. grandis'') is known as a blue marble tree. In India, the cleaned pits of the fruit of this tree are known as ''rudraksha'' (from Sanskrit: ', meaning "Rudra's teardrops" or "eyes") and are widely used as prayer beads, particularly in Hinduism. ''Rudraksha'' might be produced by more than o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elaeocarpus Obovatus
''Elaeocarpus obovatus'', commonly known as hard quandong, blueberry ash, whitewood, grey carabeen, freckled oliveberry or gray carrobeen, is a species of flowering plant in the family Elaeocarpaceae and is endemic to eastern Australia. It is a tree with buttress roots at the base of the trunk, egg-shaped to lance-shaped leaves with the narrower end towards the base, racemes of white flowers, and blue, oval fruit. Description ''Elaeocarpus obovatus'' is sometimes a small tree tall, and sometimes a tall tree growing to a height of with buttress roots at the base of a trunk that is up to in diameter. The outer bark is smooth, grey and thin with corky irregularities. The leaves are arranged alternately, egg-shaped to lance-shaped with the narrower end towards the base, long and wide on a petiole long. The edges of the leaves are wavy, scalloped or toothed and the midrib is raised on the upper and lower surfaces. The flowers are arranged in racemes of ten to twenty long, eac ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Terminalia Cunninghamii
''Terminalia cunninghamii'', commonly known as pindan quondong, pindan walnut or kalumburu almond, is a tree or shrub of the family ''Combretaceae'' native to Western Australia. Some Aboriginal people know the plant as kumpaja. The tree or shrub typically grows to a height of in height and is deciduous. It blooms between January and October producing white-yellow flowers. It will fruit after two or three years, the nut that is produced is edible and when uncooked tastes like almond but when roasted tastes more like cashew nuts. It is found among sandstone outcrops and on dunes in the Kimberley Kimberly or Kimberley may refer to: Places and historical events Australia Queensland * Kimberley, Queensland, a coastal locality in the Shire of Douglas South Australia * County of Kimberley, a cadastral unit in South Australia Ta ... region of Western Australia growing in sandy soils. A project is under way to cultivate the tree alongside orchards of gubinge (''Ter ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Santalum Murrayanum
''Santalum murrayanum'', commonly known as the bitter quandong, is an Australian plant in the sandalwood family, ''Santalaceae''. The Noongar name for the plant is coolyar. It bears a bitter fruit, from which a common name derives, in contrast to congener ''Santalum acuminatum'' - sweet quandong. The plant is also known as Ming.http://www.wanatca.org.au/Q-Yearbook/Y5all.pdf West Australian Nutgrowing Society Yearbook It occurs in a hemi-parasitic relationship with the roots of several other plants, in a non-destructive way, as with all the species of the genus ''Santalum ''Santalum'' is a genus of woody flowering plants in the Santalaceae family, the best known and most commercially valuable of which is the Indian sandalwood tree, '' S. album''. Members of the genus are trees or shrubs. Most are root parasit ...''. The shrub or small tree typically grows to a height of . It blooms between October and January producing white to yellow-green flowers. It is found on sandplai ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Santalum Lanceolatum
''Santalum lanceolatum'' is an Australian tree of the family Santalaceae. It is commonly known as desert quandong, northern sandalwood, sandalwood, or true sandalwood and in some areas as ''burdardu''. The mature height of this plant is variable, from 1 to 7 m. The flowers are green, white, and cream, appearing between January and October. The species has a distribution throughout central Australia, becoming scattered or unusual in more southern regions. Taxonomy ''Santalum lanceolatum'' was first formally described in 1810 by Robert Brown (botanist, born 1773), Robert Brown and the description was published in ''Prodromus Florae Novae Hollandiae''. Distribution and habitat The native range of the plant extends from north-western Victoria (Australia), Victoria, northwards through New South Wales to North Queensland, westwards across The Northern Territory and into north-western Western Australia. It is a plant primarily of arid and semiarid inland areas, although its distributio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elaeocarpus Williamsianus
''Elaeocarpus williamsianus'', commonly known as hairy quandong, is a species of flowering plant in the family Elaeocarpaceae. It is endemic to a restricted area of north-eastern New South Wales, Australia. It is a small tree with lance-shaped leaves, racemes of greenish-white flowers and spherical blue fruit. Description ''Elaeocarpus williamsianus'' is a tree that typically grows to a height of with a trunk diameter of up to , with creamy-brown bark but without buttress roots. Its young branchlets are densely covered with woolly, rust-coloured hairs. The leaves are lance-shaped to egg-shaped with the narrower end towards the base, long and wide on a petiole long. The leaves sometimes have eight to ten pairs of inconspicuous teeth on the edges. The flowers are pendent, borne in leaf axils in groups of eleven to sixteen on a rachis long, each flower on a pedicel long. The flowers have five oblong to narrow triangular green sepals long and about wide. The five petals are gr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elaeocarpus Sericopetalus
''Elaeocarpus sericopetalus'', commonly known as hard quandong, blueberry ash, hard duandong or northern quandong, is a species of flowering plant in the family Elaeocarpaceae and is endemic to Queensland. It is a tree, sometimes with buttress roots at the base of the trunk, relatively large lenticels, oblong to elliptic leaves, creamy-white flowers with five petals, and deep red to almost black fruit. Description ''Elaeocarpus sericopetalus'' is a tree that typically grows to a height of , sometimes with buttress roots and with relatively large lenticels. The leaves are more or less clustered near the ends of the branchlets, oblong to elliptic, long and wide on a petiole long. The flowers are creamy-white, borne in groups of up to eight on a rachis up to long, each flower on a pedicel long. The flowers have five egg-shaped sepals long and wide. The five petals are oblong, slightly longer than, but narrower than the sepals, sometimes with two or three notches on the end an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elaeocarpus Ruminatus
''Elaeocarpus'' is a genus of nearly five hundred species of flowering plants in the family Elaeocarpaceae native to the Western Indian Ocean, Tropical and Subtropical Asia, and the Pacific. Plants in the genus ''Elaeocarpus'' are trees or shrubs with simple leaves, flowers with four or five petals usually, and usually blue fruit. Description Plants in the genus ''Elaeocarpus'' are mostly evergreen trees or shrubs, a few are epiphytes or lianes, and some are briefly deciduous. The leaves are arranged alternately, simple (strictly compound with only one leaflet) with a swelling where the petiole meets the lamina, often have toothed edges, usually have prominent veins and often turn red before falling. The flowers are usually arranged in a raceme, usually bisexual, have four or five sepals and petals and many stamens. The petals usually have finely-divided, linear lobes. The fruit is an oval to spherical drupe that is usually blue, sometimes black, with a sculptured endocarp. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
