Tall tree with smooth grey scaly bark. Leaves alternate, 10-15 cm long, 3-4.5 cm wide, pointed, leathery. Flowers axillary, 1 or 2, sometimes several at the tip of the shoot. Sepals yellowish. Petals 4-5, yellow. Stamens numerous, 2-3 cm long in a single whorl. Ovary more or less superior, 3-chambered. Fruit 1-1.5 cm wide.

The cultivars X. 'Expo Gold' and X. 'Tropic Splendour' PVJ 6(1)5 are listed.

A tree of the Qld rainforests but grown in warmer districts, e.g. Brisbane and occasionally further south.

Coastal Qld.

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.