page_title: Backhousia sciadophora
section_title: Leaves, flowers and fruit
hierarchical_section_title: Backhousia sciadophora / Description / Leaves, flowers and fruit
caption_attribution_description: English: Shatterwood growing next to Thunderbolts Way, near Gloucester, NSW
context_page_description: Backhousia sciadophora is a common Australian tree, growing from near Dungog in New South Wales to near Kilcoy in south east Queensland. Common names include Shatterwood, Ironwood, Boomerang Tree and Curracabark. The habitat of Shatterwood is drier forms of rainforest in gorges and steep slopes, usually not on volcanic soils.
context_section_description: The leaves are opposite, simple, entire, broadly ovate or elliptical, 5 to 10 cm long. Round or drawn into a blunt point, or sometimes notched.  Oil dots small and numerous. Leaf stalks very short.
  Leaf venation includes a looping intermarginal vein, well removed from the leaf's edge. A second intermarginal leaf vein is present, closer to the leaf edge. The midrib vein is sunken on the lower surface, but slightly raised above.
  Flowers are white, small and numerous. Flowering period from June to July. The fruit matures from May to August, being a brown capsule, bell shaped, 5 mm in diameter including the five persistent calyx lobes, 2 mm long. Seeds five to eight in each fruit, oval, 1 mm long, golden brown in colour.
caption: Shatterwood growing next to Thunderbolts Way, Australia
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