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Dendrocnide photiniphylla
Also called Fibrewood, Shining Leaved Stinging Tree
Dendrocnide photiniphylla, the shining-leaved stinging tree, is a rainforest tree of eastern Australia. It occurs from near the Colo River northwest of Sydney to Cooktown in tropical Queensland. A versatile species, it occurs in many different rainforest types. The specific epithet photiniphylla translates to 'shining leaf'. The generic name Dendrocnide translates to 'stinging tree'.
Indigenous Australians used the fibres to make nets and bags.
Dendrocnide corallodesme · Dendrocnide cordata · Stinging Tree · Giant Stinging Tree · Dendrocnide meyeniana · Gimpi Gimpi · Stinging Tree · Dendrocnide sinuata · Dendrocnide urentissima · Nettle Trees
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Dendrocnide photiniphylla 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.
