Spreading tree, often multi-stemmed from the base, generally no taller than about 10 m in cultivation. Bark attractive, often mottled red, pale yellow and grey. Leaves leathery, clustered at the ends of the branches, lanceolate to oblanceolate, glossy green above, pale green to whitish below, 6-12 cm long, 2-3 cm wide, thick-edged. Flowers yellow in 3s in the leaf axils; late spring to early summer. Fruit a domed capsule about 6 mm wide with 3 projecting valves. Syn. Tristania laurina Smith.

Grows naturally along streams and on moist, shaded, valley slopes along the E coast.

Qld.

ACT: Canberra (City, Allara St, Capital Park Royal Hotel).VIC: Caulfield (Park); Melbourne (Royal Bot. Gds, top of fern gully, multiple-branched, featured in Guilfoyle's 1911 Australian Plants).

Source: Spencer, R. (2002). Myrtaceae. In: Spencer, R.. Horticultural Flora of South-eastern Australia. Volume 3. Flowering plants. Dicotyledons. Part 2. The identification of garden and cultivated plants. University of New South Wales Press.