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Narrow Leaved Tuckeroo

Cupaniopsis baileyana

Also called Toothed Tuckeroo, White Tamarind

Narrow Leaved Tuckeroo
Photo: Murray Fagg, CC BY-SA 4.0
Family
Sapindaceae (Soapberry & maple family)
Grows as
Tree
Native range
E. Australia
Climate
seasonally dry tropical

About

Cupaniopsis baileyana, commonly known as narrow-leaved tuckeroo, toothed tuckeroo or white tamarind, is a species of flowering tree in the soapberry family and is endemic to eastern Australia. It is a tree with paripinnate leaves with 8 to 20 narrowly oblong to lance-shaped leaflets, and separate, male and female flowers arranged in panicles, the fruit a more or less spherical red to brown capsule.

Where it grows

Narrow-leaved tuckeroo grows mainly in, and on the edges of warmer rainforest from the south of Brisbane in Queensland to the Bulga-Comboyne area of New South Wales. It can be a pioneer species, growing in areas of forest disturbance.

Other Cupaniopsis plants

Tuckeroo · Cupaniopsis cooperorum · Cupaniopsis dallachyi · Cupaniopsis diploglottoides · Brown tuckeroo · Cupaniopsis fleckeri · White tamarind · Long Leaved Tuckeroo · Cupaniopsis papillosa · Rusty Tuckeroo · Wedge Leaf Tuckeroo · Northern Tuckeroo

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Cupaniopsis baileyana by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.

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.

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