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Silver Ash

Flindersia schottiana

Also called Bumpy Ash, Cudgerie, Flindosy Beech, Floppy Leaf Ash, Mountain Ash, Northern Silver Ash, Southern Silver Ash

Silver Ash
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Family
Rutaceae (Citrus family)
Grows as
Tree
Native range
New Guinea, E. Queensland to NE. New South Wales
Climate
seasonally dry tropical

About

Flindersia schottiana, commonly known as bumpy ash, cudgerie or silver ash, is a species of rainforest tree in the family Rutaceae and is native to New Guinea and eastern Australia. It has pinnate leaves with mostly ten to sixteen leaflets, panicles of white flowers and woody fruit studded with rough points.

Where it grows

Bumpy ash grows in rainforest from sea level to an altitude of 800 m (2,600 ft) and occurs in New Guinea and from the Claudie River in the Kutini-Payamu National Park in far north Queensland to the Hastings River in New South Wales.

Other Flindersia plants

Flindersia acuminata · Flindersia amboinensis · Australian Teak · Bennett's Ash · Flindersia bourjotiana · Hard Scented Maple · Queensland maple · Broad Leaved Leopard Tree · Flindersia dissosperma · Cairns hickory · Flindersia laevicarpa · Leopardtree

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Flindersia schottiana 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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