Description
Karaka is a leafy canopy tree with erect or spreading branches. It grows to heights of up to 15 metres and has a stout trunk up to 1 metre in diameter. The thick, leathery leaves are dark green above and paler beneath, 50 to 200mm wide and 30 to 70 mm wide. The leaves are glossy. In winter and spring (August to November) it produces stout, erect panicles of tiny flowers with petioles 10–15 mm long. The individual flowers are 4 to 5 mm in diameter, greenish-cream to off-white or pale yellow. The fruit is an ellipsoid to ovoid drupe 25 to 46 mm long, with pale yellow to orange flesh, and the seed is a single kernel. The fruit ripens in summer and autumn January to April and the seed dispersion is the result of scattering by columbiform birds mostly.
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