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Athertonia diversifolia
3-643.12.00English: Atherton oak; Atherton almond; White Oak; Cream silky oak.
Genus: 1 species.
Region: north-eastern Queensland, Australia.
Habitat: tablelands and mountainous regions; wet tropics rain forests; from 700 to 1,150 metres altitude; soils are deep volcanic loams.
Use: potential as an ornamental; edible nuts.BotanySmall to medium-sized tree; widespread; 8 to 30 m tall.
Stem: may be buttressed; diameter of 30 cm.
Leaves: simple, oblong, with finely toothed margins, covered in fine rusty hair when young; large, lobed, variable in shape, lobed or entire, intermediate when older, 12 to 20 cm long and 5 to 9 cm wide.
Inflorescences; 15 to 34 cm long racemes.
Flowers: cream and brown; blooming from March to June.
Fruit: lens-shaped is ± 4 cm long by ± 3 cm wide, ± 2 cm thick; dark blue; containing a woody-shelled nut with a large edible and crunchy kernel, which ripen in spring.
Genus: 1 species.
Region: north-eastern Queensland, Australia.
Habitat: tablelands and mountainous regions; wet tropics rain forests; from 700 to 1,150 metres altitude; soils are deep volcanic loams.
Use: potential as an ornamental; edible nuts.BotanySmall to medium-sized tree; widespread; 8 to 30 m tall.
Stem: may be buttressed; diameter of 30 cm.
Leaves: simple, oblong, with finely toothed margins, covered in fine rusty hair when young; large, lobed, variable in shape, lobed or entire, intermediate when older, 12 to 20 cm long and 5 to 9 cm wide.
Inflorescences; 15 to 34 cm long racemes.
Flowers: cream and brown; blooming from March to June.
Fruit: lens-shaped is ± 4 cm long by ± 3 cm wide, ± 2 cm thick; dark blue; containing a woody-shelled nut with a large edible and crunchy kernel, which ripen in spring.