Polyscias nodosa
Smithfield, QLD
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| Polyscias nodosa | 27 Jun 2025 | JasonPStewart | ||
| Polyscias nodosa | 27 Jun 2025 | JasonPStewart |
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_Polyscias nodosa_ .
Wonderful tree, including large inflorescence this season, budding well just some just starting opening, and the spectacular foliage .
Amusingly, directly outside the entrance of the Au Tropical Forests Institute building, including Au Tropical Herbarium, JCU Smithfield Cairns campus .
This garden was re-landscaped and re-planted sometime since ca. 2019 when i travelled away to stay with my elderly, unwell, now late Mum, and when I returned in 2021 this tree had long gone.
Frank Zich, herbarium curator, says in our conversation, this was self sown in the time after the (previous) garden was constructed .
Some nearby, old 1980s–1990s, herbarium specimens' records in the Au Virtual Herbarium records, out of only 106 total records in Qld and Au–wide.
If I was growing some indigenous Polyscias spp. for horticultural purposes for suburban plantings, I would certainly include this beaut' species.
More medium sized trees grow nearby in Atika creek near the library, I observed in 2021 Sept. : (94258880)
2015 April 20th 12:20 – 12:21 pm .
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Location information
- Coordinates 145.686857-16.816032
- Places Smithfield, QLD
Sighting information
- 1 Abundance
- 20 Apr 2015 12:20 PM Recorded on
- JasonPStewart Recorded by
- Greater than 5 metres Plant height
- Less than 50cm Circumference of trunk
- Yes In flower
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- Polyscias nodosa Scientific name
- Common name
- Not Sensitive
- Local native
- Non-invasive or negligible
- Up to 49.87m Recorded at altitude
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