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Cupaniopsis anacardioides
Also called Carrotwood, Beach tamarind, Green-leaved tamarind, Carrot Weed, Cashew Leaf Cupania, Green Leaf Tamarind, Carrotwood Tree
Tuckeroo is a small evergreen tree native to coastal eastern and northern Australia and New Guinea, grown widely as a shady street and park tree. It tolerates coastal conditions and is easy to raise from fresh seed.
Cupaniopsis anacardioides, commonly known as tuckeroo, cashew-leaf cupania, carrotwood, beach tamarind or green-leaved tamarind, is a species of flowering plant in the family, Sapindaceae, and is native to eastern and northern Australia. It is a tree with paripinnate leaves with 4 to 8 egg-shaped leaflets with the narrower end towards the base, or elliptic leaves, and separate male and female flowers arranged in panicles, the fruit a more or less spherical golden yellow capsule.
Germination of tuckeroo from fresh seed occurs without difficulty, particularly if the seed is removed from the aril and soaked for a few days. Tuckeroo is widely cultivated in parks and is a spreading and shady street tree.
The usual habitat of this species is on rocky beaches, in hilly scrub and forest in littoral rainforest on sand or near estuaries. The species occurs in New Guinea, the Dampierland and Northern Kimberley bioregions of northern Western Australia, the far north of the Northern Territory, and in Queensland and New South Wales as far south as Gerroa.
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Cupaniopsis anacardioides by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.
The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
