Tree to 10 m high. Stipules lanceolate, 6-9 mm long. Leaf blade broadly ovate, often trilobed when juvenile, 60-350 mm long, 45-300 mm wide, glands at base stalkless; tip long-pointed; base cordate to lobed. Ovary sparsely hairy. Fruits spherical, 4-5 cm long, 3.5-5 cm wide. Syn. Aleurites fordii Hemsl.

Trialled in several places in Qld and NSW for oil production in the 1930s and 1940s, but no longer commercially viable. Grown mainly as an ornamental at present.

V. montana Lour. from Asia, Chinese Wood-oil Tree, grows to 10 m high. Stipules lanceolate, 3-4 mm long. Leaf blade broadly ovate, often trilobed when juvenile, 100-200 mm long, 50-200 mm wide, glands at base turbinate; tip long-pointed; base cordate to abruptly narrowed. Ovary densely rust-coloured, hairy. Fruits ovoidroundish, 4-6 cm long, 4-4.5 cm wide. Syn. Aleurites montana (Lour.) Wilson.

Asia.

Source: Forster, P. (2002). Euphorbiaceae. 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.