Bosistoa pentacocca, commonly known as ferny-leaf bosistoa, native almond or union nut, is a species of tree that is endemic to eastern Australia. It has pinnate leaves arranged in opposite pairs with between three and thirteen leaflets and panicles of small flowers arranged in leaf axils or on the ends of branches. It grows along streams in rainforest.
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Is it poisonous?
We have no record of Ferny leaf Bosistoa 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
- Castanospora alphandii
- Harpullia hillii
- Elattostachys nervosa
- Cupaniopsis newmanii
- Alectryon subcinereus
Classification
- Kingdom
- Plantae
- Phylum
- Tracheophyta
- Class
- Magnoliopsida
- Order
- Sapindales
- Family
- Rutaceae
- Genus
- Bosistoa
- Species
- Bosistoa pentacocca
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