Thick base to tail. The tail is shorter than the head and body. The Green Ringtail Possum has a distinguished resting posture. It sleeps curled in a tight ball, gripping the branch with one or both hind feet, and sitting on the base of its coiled tail, with its forefeet, face and tip of the tail tucked tightly into its belly. Sparse and limited distribution.
Daytime roost is an open branch.
Although mainly nocturnal, the possum may move about during the day as a result of being disturbed in its daytime roost. Its diet consists exclusively of leaves. Figs of several species are favoured. Specific eater of leaves of the Shining-leafed Stinging Tree, Pepperwood, Red Tulip Oak, Flame Kurrajong and the False Stinger. The Green Ringtail Possum is the most solitary of the ringtails.