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Leatherwood

Melicope vitiflora

Also called Coast Euodia, Doughwood, Fish Poison Wood, Fishpoison Wood, Northern Doughwood, Northern Euodia, Northern Evodia

Leatherwood
Photo: Murray Fagg, CC BY 3.0 au
Family
Rutaceae (Citrus family)
Grows as
Tree, Shrub
Native range
New Guinea, E. Queensland to NE. New South Wales
Climate
wet tropical

About

Melicope vitiflora, commonly known as northern evodia, fishpoison wood, leatherjacket or leatherwood, is a species of shrub or small tree in the family Rutaceae and is native to north-eastern Australia and New Guinea. It has trifoliate leaves and green to white or cream-coloured flowers borne in panicles in leaf axils.

Where it grows

Melicope vitiflora grows in coastal and inland rainforest and is found from near sea level to an altitude of 1,200 m (3,900 ft). It occurs in New Guinea and from the McIlwraith Range on Cape York Peninsula to Broken Head in far north-eastern New South Wales.

Other Melicope plants

Melicope accedens · Auwahi melicope · Melicope affinis · Ballou's melicope · Yellow evodia · False Euodia · Waianae Range melicope · Manena · Melicope clemensiae · Melicope confusa · Melicope contermina · Pilo 'ula

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Melicope vitiflora 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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