Litsea reticulata is a common Australian tree, growing from near Milton, New South Wales to the Bunya Mountains, Queensland. Common names include bollygum, bolly wood and brown beech. The habitat of the bollygum is rainforest of most types, except the dryer forms.
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Is it poisonous?
We have no record of Bolly gum being toxic, poisonous or venomous. That is not proof that it is safe. Never eat, touch or handle a wild plant, mushroom or animal on the strength of an identification; ask someone qualified.
Easily confused with
- Cryptocarya sclerophylla
- Diospyros pentamera
- Uvaria leichhardtii
- Huberantha nitidissima
- Cryptocarya bidwillii
- Planchonella australis
Classification
- Kingdom
- Plantae
- Phylum
- Tracheophyta
- Class
- Magnoliopsida
- Order
- Laurales
- Family
- Lauraceae
- Genus
- Litsea
- Species
- Litsea reticulata
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