page_title: Aceratium ferrugineum
section_title: Description
hierarchical_section_title: Aceratium ferrugineum / Description
caption_attribution_description: Aceratium ferrugineum (Rusty Carabeen) – fruiting. The fruit 3-4cm long, floccose ('hairy'), they become red and fall to the ground when ripe. The fruit is drupe, it has red juice sour taste, apparently edible&#160;;) - similar to its relative Elaeocarpus Blue Quandong. Australian rainforest tree endemic to North-East Queensland. Family: Elaeocarpaceae Location: Roma Street Parkland, Brisbane. Date: 16 August 2011 By: Tatiana Gerus
context_page_description: Aceratium ferrugineum is a species of medium-sized trees, commonly known as rusty carabeen, constituting part of the plant family Elaeocarpaceae. They are endemic to the Wet Tropics rainforests of northeastern Queensland, Australia.
  Within the Wet Tropics region rusty carabeen trees grow only in the restricted areas of luxuriant, mature, mountain rainforest on the Mount Carbine Tableland between Black Mountain and Mt Spurgeon, and on Mt Lewis. There they grow on soils built from granite parent materials.
context_section_description: Mature trees have fluted trunks and grow to 30 m (100 ft) tall. The leaves occur opposite each other, when new have dense rusty hairs all over them which persist on the underside and the top midrib, and measure 7.5 cm–16 cm × 3.5 cm–7.5 cm (3.0 in–6.3 in × 1.4 in–3.0 in). Near the ends of new growing branches grow racemes of pink flowers, each approximately 20 mm (0.8 in) long. They produce bunches of yellow–orange–red, oval shaped fruits measuring 30 mm–45 mm × 18 mm–28 mm (1.18 in–1.77 in × 0.71 in–1.10 in). Their fibrous ripe flesh smells like ripe watermelon.
  Although not yet well known, the trees have some popularity in cultivation, for example in Brisbane.
caption: Fruiting, cultivated plant at Roma Street Parkland, Brisbane, 11 Dec 2011, by Tatiana Gerus
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