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Idiospermum australiense has, in contrast to its weighty evolutionary significance and its extraordinarily unique fruit, a rather nondescript overall appearance. [5] [6] It is a broadleaf evergreen tree growing to around 25 m (82 ft) tall, [7] [8] [9] with a maximum trunk diameter at breast height (DBH) of around 60 cm (24 in).
Idiot fruit Idiospermum australiense: Spicebush family (Calycanthaceae) 3.1 in sphere. 8 cm sphere. [22] 7.9 oz. (225 grams) [23] Very poisonous. "Capucin". Northia seychellana Sapote Family 3.1 inches, and nearly as wide3. 8 centimeters, and nearly as wide. [24] weight not stated Avocado Persea americana: Laurel family 3 in 7.6 cm
Idiot fruit: Idiospermum australiense: Daintree lowlands, Mount Bellenden Ker and Mount Bartle Frere in Tropical North Queensland: A primitive angiosperm with close relatives from the Middle Cretaceous. [27] Produces the largest seeds of any plant in Australia (225 grams), which are only sporadically dispersed by gravity and water. [24]
Wood anatomy of Idiospermum australiense (Diels) S.T. Blake, Proc. Ecologicial Soc. of Australia 15: 281. Foreman, D.B. (1988). Notes from the National Herbarium of Victoria – 7: Studies in Isopogon and Petrophile (Proteaceae), Vict.
The Daintree rainforest contains important and significant habitats for conservation of biological diversity. Approximately 430 species of birds live among the trees. The primitive flowering plants Austrobaileya scandens and Idiospermum australiense are also endemic to the Daintree.
Idiospermum australiense, an Australian tree; Genus Hoheria, also known as lacebark; Plagianthus regius, a New Zealand tree, lowland ribbonwood, Chatham Island ribbonwood; Plagianthus divaricatus, a New Zealand tree, salt marsh ribbonwood, swamp ribbonwood, shore ribbonwood, coastal ribbonwood, swamp fragrant ribbonwood or fragrant ribbonwood
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The fruit is an elliptical dry capsule, ... Idiospermum australiense, would then represent an ancient relic, probably having diverged in the Cretaceous.