Beilschmiedia elliptica, known as the grey walnut is a rainforest laurel native to northeastern New South Wales and southeastern Queensland in eastern Australia. The range of natural distribution is from Forster, New South Wales (32° S) to Fraser Island (25° S) in southeastern Queensland. Beilschmiedia elliptica grows in warm temperate and subtropical rainforests. It is not a rare species, but seldom identified in the rainforest.
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Is it poisonous?
We have no record of Grey Walnut 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
- Beilschmiedia obtusifolia
- Cryptocarya macdonaldii
- Cryptocarya sclerophylla
- Litsea reticulata
- Arytera distylis
- Endiandra virens
Classification
- Kingdom
- Plantae
- Phylum
- Tracheophyta
- Class
- Magnoliopsida
- Order
- Laurales
- Family
- Lauraceae
- Genus
- Beilschmiedia
- Species
- Beilschmiedia elliptica
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