Coachwood

About

Washpool National Park protects the world's largest stand of coachwood trees, a defining feature of the coachwood-sassafras rainforest community that characterises NSW's Gondwana Rainforests World Heritage reserves.

How to spot it

Smooth, greyish, fragrant bark marked with distinctive horizontal scars encircling the trunk; grows to around 25m (exceptional specimens to 40m) with pale pink to pinkish-brown timber that carries a caramel-like scent when cut. Common canopy associate of sassafras in cool, moist rainforest gullies.

Found in

• Washpool National Park
• Border Ranges National Park
• Nightcap National Park
• Dorrigo National Park
• New England National Park
• Gibraltar Range National Park
• Barrington Tops National Park
• Ku-ring-gai Chase National Park