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Greenheart

Endiandra compressa

Also called White Bark

Greenheart
Photo: Poyt448 Peter Woodard, CC0
Family
Lauraceae (Laurel family)
Grows as
Tree
Native range
NE. Queensland to NE. New South Wales
Climate
seasonally dry tropical

About

Endiandra compressa, commonly known as whitebark or greenheart, is a rainforest tree in the Lauraceae family endemic to eastern Australia. It was first described in 1919 and has been given the conservation status of least concern.

Where it grows

The natural distribution is from the Nambucca River in northeast New South Wales to Kutini-Payamu National Park, in Cape York Peninsula, Queensland. It grows in well developed rainforest on a variety of soil types, at altitudes from sea level to 450 m (1,480 ft) altitude.

Other Endiandra plants

Endiandra acuminata · Endiandra anthropophagorum · Endiandra bellendenkerana · Endiandra bessaphila · Endiandra collinsii · Endiandra cooperana · Northern rose walnut · Coach Walnut · Endiandra dielsiana · Domatia Tree · Endiandra floydii · Brown Walnut

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Endiandra compressa 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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