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Fraser Island Turpentine

Syncarpia hillii

Also called Hill's Turpentine, Red Satinay, Satinay

Fraser Island Turpentine
Photo: Poyt448 Peter Woodard, CC0
Family
Myrtaceae (Myrtle family)
Grows as
Tree
Native range
SE. Queensland to NE. New South Wales
Climate
subtropical

About

Syncarpia hillii is a tree of the family Myrtaceae which grows on K'gari (Fraser Island), Queensland, and the surrounding Cooloola area. Common names for this species are satinay and Fraser Island turpentine. Large examples of this tree may be seen growing at the 'Central Station' picnic area on Fraser Island. A small plot of these trees has also been found on Moreton Island growing in a gully behind Mt Tempest.

The tree can grow to 40 metres tall, and the trunk may reach one metre in diameter.

Other Syncarpia plants

Turpentine tree · Mountain Turpentine · Turpentine tree

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Syncarpia hillii 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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