Endiandra pubens is a rainforest

Rainforest

Rainforests are forests characterized by high rainfall, with definitions based on a minimum normal annual rainfall of 1750-2000 mm...

 tree growing in eastern Australia

Australia

Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...

. The habitat is subtropical rainforest growing near streams in valleys. The range of natural distribution is from the Bellinger River

Bellinger River

The Bellinger River is a river on the mid north coast of New South Wales. Clement Hodgkinson was the first person to explore the area in March 1841....

, New South Wales

New South Wales

New South Wales is a state of :Australia, located in the east of the country. It is bordered by Queensland, Victoria and South Australia to the north, south and west respectively. To the east, the state is bordered by the Tasman Sea, which forms part of the Pacific Ocean. New South Wales...

 to Bulburin National Park, south west of Gladstone, Queensland

Gladstone, Queensland

- Education :Gladstone has several primary schools, three high schools, and one university campus, Central Queensland University. It is also home to CQIT Gladstone Campus.- Recreation :...

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Common names include Rusty Walnut, Hairy Walnut, Possum Apple, Red Apple and Whitebark Walnut. Despite the common names, this tree belongs to the Laurel

Lauraceae

The Lauraceae or Laurel family comprises a group of flowering plants included in the order Laurales. The family contains about 55 genera and over 3500, perhaps as many as 4000, species world-wide, mostly from warm or tropical regions, especially Southeast Asia and South America...

 family.

Description

A small bushy tree, occasionally reaching 25 metres tall and a trunk diameter of 45 cm. The base of the tree may be flanged or somewhat buttressed in larger trees. The bark is pale, light grey or fawn in colour. Small branches are rusty and hairy.

Leaves simple and alternate, ovate in shape, 7 to 20 cm long. Glossy green above, rusty and hairy underneath. Leaf stalks hairy being 5 to 20 mm long. Leaf veins visible on both upper and lower sides. However, more noticeable below with a covering of brown hairs.

Cream or orange flowers form on short panicle

Panicle

A panicle is a compound raceme, a loose, much-branched indeterminate inflorescence with pedicellate flowers attached along the secondary branches; in other words, a branched cluster of flowers in which the branches are racemes....

s in the months of March to May. Rusty in appearance and with an aniseed scent.

Fruit matures from October to February being a large fleshy drupe

Drupe

In botany, a drupe is a fruit in which an outer fleshy part surrounds a shell of hardened endocarp with a seed inside. These fruits develop from a single carpel, and mostly from flowers with superior ovaries...

, 3 to 6 cm in diameter. Greenish or a deep red in colour. Inside is a single large seed.

Removal of the red fleshy aril

Aril

An aril is any specialized outgrowth from the funiculus that covers or is attached to the seed. It is sometimes applied to any appendage or thickening of the seed coat in flowering plants, such as the edible parts of the mangosteen and pomegranate fruit, the mace of the nutmeg seed, or the...

is advised to assist germination. Regeneration from fresh seed is very slow, often taking a year for roots and shoots to appear.