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Flindersia brayleyana
Also called Warri, Australian maple, Maple silkwood, Scented maple, New Guinea silkwood, Red Beech
Queensland maple is a large rainforest tree native to northern Queensland, valued for its decorative timber and now rarely grown outside its native range. It is a tree rather than a houseplant or garden shrub, so care notes below apply to the species in cultivation.
Flindersia brayleyana, commonly known as Queensland maple, maple silkwood or red beech, is a species of tree in the family Rutaceae and is endemic to northern Queensland. It has pinnate leaves with between six and ten leaflets, panicles of white or cream-coloured flowers and smooth fruit that opens in five sections to release winged seeds.
Queensland maple grows in rainforest at altitudes between 30 and 1,100 m (98 and 3,609 ft) between the Daintree River and Rockingham Bay.
Queensland maple produces a good quality, decorative cabinet timber and has been used in the manufacture of propellers and plywood in Mosquito bomber aircraft and in acoustic guitars. However most specimens are protected in World Heritage areas, the timber is now in very short supply, and attempts to grow the tree in plantations have failed. Its heartwood is pink to brownish pink whilst the narrow sapwood band is white to pale grey. The timber provides very high chatoyance (iridescence or lustre), with an average value above 23 PZC.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Flindersia brayleyana by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.
The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.
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.
