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Flindersia acuminata, commonly known as silver silkwood, icewood, Putt's pine, Paddy King's beech or silver maple, is a species of tree that has pinnate leaves with between six and ten egg-shaped to elliptic leaflets, creamy yellow flowers arranged in panicles, and fruit studded with short, rough points.
Silver silkwood grows in rainforest at altitudes of 200 to 1,000 m (660 to 3,280 ft) from near Kuranda to Mission Beach in far north Queensland.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Flindersia acuminata 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.
