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Satin Wood

Daphnandra apatela

Also called Socket Wood, Yellow Wood

Satin Wood
Photo: Poyt448 Peter Woodard, CC0
Family
Atherospermataceae (Atherospermat family)
Grows as
Tree
Native range
Queensland to New South Wales
Climate
seasonally dry tropical

About

Daphnandra apatela, the socketwood, light yellowwood or canary socketwood is a common rainforest tree in eastern Australia. It grows in the more fertile alluvial soils and basaltic soils. Distributed from the Watagan Mountains (31° S) in New South Wales to Miriam Vale (24° S) near Gladstone in Queensland.

Other Daphnandra plants

Illawara socketwood · Daphnandra melasmena · Socketwood · Red Flowered Socketwood · Socketwoods

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Daphnandra apatela 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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