''Eucryphia moorei'', commonly known as pinkwood, plumwood, or eastern leatherwood is a

tree In botany, a tree is a perennial plant with an elongated stem, or trunk, usually supporting branches and leaves. In some usages, the definition of a tree may be narrower, e.g., including only woody plants with secondary growth, only ...

found in southeastern

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. It also occurs just over the border at the Howe Range in Victoria. Pinkwood is the dominant tree species of cool-

temperate rainforest Temperate rainforests are rainforests with coniferous or Broad-leaved tree, broadleaf forests that occur in the temperate zone and receive heavy rain. Temperate rainforests occur in oceanic moist regions around the world: the Pacific temperate ...

s of southeastern

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. Young plants often grow as hemiepiphytes.

Description

''Eucryphia moorei'' can grow to 30 metres in height. Leaves are

pinnate Pinnation (also called pennation) is the arrangement of feather-like or multi-divided features arising from both sides of a common axis. Pinnation occurs in biological morphology, in crystals, such as some forms of ice or metal crystals, and ...

, mostly 5–15 cm long, with usually 5–13 leaflets but they are often reduced to 3 on flowering branches. Leaflets are

oblong An oblong is an object longer than it is wide, especially a non-square rectangle. Oblong may also refer to: Places * Oblong, Illinois, a village in the United States * Oblong Township, Crawford County, Illinois, United States * A strip of land ...

, 1–7 cm long, mostly 5–15 mm wide, margins are entire,

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is leathery, upper surface is dark green and ± glabrous, lower surface is white-

tomentose Trichomes (; ) are fine outgrowths or appendages on plants, algae, lichens, and certain protists. They are of diverse structure and function. Examples are hairs, glandular hairs, scales, and papillae. A covering of any kind of hair on a plant ...

; petiole is 10–30 mm long; lateral leaflets are sessile.

Gallery

Image:Eucryphia moorei Monga.jpg, ''Eucryphia moorei'', Monga National Park Image:Plumwood 1.jpg, ''Eucryphia moorei'', Monga National Park Image:Plumwood 3.jpg, ''Eucryphia moorei'', Monga National Park

References

{{Taxonbar, from=Q8846044 moorei Flora of New South Wales Oxalidales of Australia Trees of Australia Taxa named by Ferdinand von Mueller