English: Ivory curl flower; Ivory curl; Spotted silky oak; Buckinghamia silky oak.
Genus: 2 species.
Region: north eastern Queensland, Australia.
Habitat: rainforests, wet tropics; full sun or part shade; 200 to 1000 m altitude.
Use: ornamental in gardens and parks; Hardy and spectacular trees, they make ideal screens or windbreaks in a garden.
BotanyTrees; 10 m, naturally to about 30 m
Leaves: glossy dark green; lobed or entire; new growth flushed pink.
Flowers: spectacular; long showy sprays of sweetly fragrant, creamy-white flowers; blooming in summer; four ovules per carpel; antero-posterior orientation of the perianth.
Pollination: by birds and bees.
Chromosomes: 11 pairs.