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Syzygium forte
Also called White apple, Brown satinash, Watergum
Syzygium forte, commonly known as flaky-barked satinash, white apple or brown satinash, is a tree in the family Myrtaceae native to New Guinea and northern Australia. It was first described in 1865 and is classified as least concern. The fruit are edible, and it is used as a landscaping tree for streets and parks.
Indigenous Australians ate the fruit and used the leaves as a fish poison.
This species is too large for most private gardens but is useful as a park and street tree. The Cairns Regional Council has planted well over 400 of both subspecies combined throughout the city and suburbs.
Syzygium forte is native to New Guinea and the northern parts of Western Australia, the Northern Territory and Queensland in Australia. The subspecies S. f. potamophilum is found in all three states, and is the only species found in Western Australia. It is thought to be endemic to Australia. The other, S. f. forte, is found in the Northern Territory, Queensland and New Guinea.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Syzygium forte 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.
