| Queensland walnut | |
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| Finished timber | |
Scientific classification
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Magnoliids |
| Order: | Laurales |
| Family: | Lauraceae |
| Genus: | Endiandra |
| Species: | E. palmerstonii
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| Binomial name | |
| Endiandra palmerstonii
C. T. White, 1920
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Endiandra palmerstonii, popularly known as Queensland walnut or black walnut, is a rainforest tree of northern Queensland. It was named after the Australian prospector Christie Palmerston. [1]
Queensland walnut has been used as a furniture timber. [1] It is also used to make guitars. [2]
The nut was an important food source for Aboriginal Australians. [3]
It was initially classified Cryptocarya palmerstonii by Frederick Manson Bailey in 1891, and received its present classification from his grandson C. T. White in 1920. [4]
References
- ^ a b Williams, Cheryll J. (2021). Phytochemistry of Australia's Tropical Rainforest: Medicinal Potential of Ancient Plants. CSIRO. p. 360. ISBN 9781486307593. Retrieved 29 September 2022.
- ^ "Queensland walnut". Queensland Government. 12 December 2018. Retrieved 29 September 2022.
- ^ Tuechler, Anna (November 2014). "Transforming the inedible to the edible: An analysis of the nutritional returns from Aboriginal nut processing in Queensland's Wet Tropics". Australian Archaeology. 79: 26–33. doi: 10.1080/03122417.2014.11682016. S2CID 148394536. Retrieved 29 September 2022.
- ^ "Flora of Australia, Volume 2" (PDF). Australian Biological Resources Study. p. 203. Retrieved 29 September 2022.
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