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Elaeocarpus arnhemicus, the blue plum, bony quandong or Arnhem Land quandong, or simply elaeocarpus, is a species of flowering plant in the family Elaeocarpaceae and is native to northern Australia, New Guinea, Timor and certain other islands in the Indonesian Archipelago. It is a tree with narrow elliptic to lance-shaped or egg-shaped leaves with serrated edges, racemes of white or cream-coloured flowers and metallic blue fruit.
Blue plum grows in riparian rainforest and some other habitats in the northern part of the Northern Territory, Cape York Peninsula, north-east Queensland and New Guinea at altitudes up to 500 m (1,600 ft) above sea level. In 2001 the known range was expanded to Java, Timor, Flores, Sumba and Sulawesi. After receiving some new specimens, M. J. E. Coode, expert Elaeocarpus taxonomist, realised that a few old specimens from two collection localities that he and his colleague Raymond Weibel had never been able to identify, were actually E. arnhemicus, considerably expanding its range.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Elaeocarpus arnhemicus 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.
