Polyscias nodosa

Smithfield, QLD

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	Polyscias nodosa	27 Jun 2025	JasonPStewartNMsnc2016
	Polyscias nodosa	27 Jun 2025	JasonPStewartNMsnc2016

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_Polyscias nodosa_ . Wonderful tree, including large inflorescence this season, budding well just some just starting opening, and the spectacular foliage . Amusingly, directly outside the entrance of the Au Tropical Forests Institute building, including Au Tropical Herbarium, JCU Smithfield Cairns campus . This garden was re-landscaped and re-planted sometime since ca. 2019 when i travelled away to stay with my elderly, unwell, now late Mum, and when I returned in 2021 this tree had long gone. Frank Zich, herbarium curator, says in our conversation, this was self sown in the time after the (previous) garden was constructed . Some nearby, old 1980s–1990s, herbarium specimens' records in the Au Virtual Herbarium records, out of only 106 total records in Qld and Au–wide. If I was growing some indigenous Polyscias spp. for horticultural purposes for suburban plantings, I would certainly include this beaut' species. More medium sized trees grow nearby in Atika creek near the library, I observed in 2021 Sept. : (94258880) 2015 April 20th 12:20 – 12:21 pm .

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Location information

Coordinates 145.686857 -16.816032
Places Smithfield, QLD

Sighting information

1 Abundance
20 Apr 2015 12:20 PM Recorded on
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Greater than 5 metres Plant height
Less than 50cm Circumference of trunk
True In flower

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Polyscias nodosa Scientific name
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Not Sensitive
Local native
Non-invasive or negligible
Up to 49.87m Recorded at altitude
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In flower
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