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Sterculia quadrifida
Also called Orange Fruit Kurrajong, Orange Fruit Sterculia, Red Fruit Kurrajong, Scarlet Fruit Kurrajong, Small Flower Kurrajong, Smooth Seed Kurrajong, White Crowsfoot
Sterculia quadrifida is a medium-sized deciduous tree of rainforests and vine thickets in New Guinea and northern Australia, grown for its edible peanut-flavoured seeds in its native range. It is rarely grown as an ornamental elsewhere, so care here is general guidance for a tropical tree.
Sterculia quadrifida, also known as the peanut tree, monkey nut or red-fruited kurrajong is a small tree that grows in some forests of New Guinea and Australia.
It grows in the rainforests, vine thickets, and gallery forests of New Guinea and northern Australia.
The seeds are edible after removing the bitter black coating.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Sterculia quadrifida 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.
