Acronychia suberosa
Acronychia suberosa , commonly known as corky acronychia, is a species of small to medium-sized rainforest tree that is endemic to eastern Australia. It has mostly trifoliate leaves with elliptic to egg-shaped leaflets with the narrower end towards the base, small groups of cream-coloured flowers and elliptical to spherical, creamy yellow to whitish fruit. Description. "Acronychia suberosa" is a tree that typically grows to a height of with a stem diameter of and a thick, dark crown. The trunk is mostly cylindrical, but occasionally with flanges at the base and the bark is usually smooth, brown  or red-brown. The leaves are trifoliate, mostly arranged in opposite pairs,the petiole long, the leaflets elliptical to egg-shaped with the narrower end towards the base, long and wide on a petiolule up to long. The flowers are arranged in cymes long, the individual flowers on a pedicel long. The four sepals are wide, the four petals cream-coloured and long and the eight stamens alternate in length. Flowering mainly occurs in February and the fruit is a fleshy, creamy yellow to whitish, elliptical to more or less spherical drupe long. The fruit matures from March to June . Taxonomy. "Acronychia suberosa" was first formally described in 1932 by Cyril Tenison White in "Proceedings of the Royal Society of Queensland" from specimens collected in Lamington National Park in 1929. The specific epithet "suberosa" means corky, referring to the bark on older trees. Distribution and habitat. Corky acronychia grows from the Richmond River, New South Wales to just over the border at the McPherson Range in south eastern Queensland at altitudes of . The habitat is sub-tropical or warm temperate rainforest on basalt soils in high rainfall areas. Uses. Food. The fruit is edible but acidic. Horticulture. Removal of the  flesh from the seed is advised for regeneration. Around 30% of the seeds may germinate in five months.