Fruits/Seeds
Large, globular pink to red fruits, and often conspicuously longitudinally ribbed, 30 - 70 mm long
Field Guide
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Lady Apple
Did You Know?
- Apart from eating huge numbers of fruit, Indigenous Australians are known to use the fruit for colds and chest congestion and squeeze the juice and pulp into their ears to relieve earache
Large, spreading tree, up to 14 m in height. Also know as Red Bush Apple.
Leaves
Variable in shape, oblong, ovate or lanceolate, usually large 7 - 19 cm long and 4 - 13 cm wide. Leaf midrib slightly grooved, depressed or flush with the upper surface.
Flowers
Large cream white brushes with long white stamens (pollen-containing anther) 13-48 mm long.
What to Observe
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First fully open single flower
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Full flowering (record all days)
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End of flowering (when 95% of the flowers have faded)
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No flowering
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Fruiting
When and Where
When To Look
- Flowering from July to October, later in southerly latitudes
- Fruits appear after flowering and usually ripen in October - December
Where To Look
- Western Australia, Northern Territory, Cape York Peninsula and far north Queensland
- Also occurs in Papua New Guinea
- Altitudinal range from sea level to 250 m
- Usually grows in open forest
- Also in or on the margins of rainforest and in beach forest
What Else?
Syzygium genus are a whole bunch of plants often called ‘Lilly Pilly’ and are found all over Australia and Asia and have edible fruit.
