Broad-leaved Lilly Pilly

About

A large littoral rainforest tree of the northern NSW coast — Iluka Nature Reserve's own Wikipedia entry singles it out as the host tree for one of the reserve's strangler figs, growing in the reserve's red volcanic soils by the sea.

How to spot it

Broadly lance-shaped to elliptic glossy leaves; panicles of white flowers October-November; white, roughly spherical fruit 11-17mm across; older trunks develop flanged or buttressed reddish-brown bark. Reaches up to 35m.

Found in

• Iluka Nature Reserve