Aleurites rockinghamensis, the candlenut, is a flowering tree in the spurge family, Euphorbiaceae found in northeastern Australia. It was first formally described and named by French botanist Henri Ernest Baillon as a variety of Aleurites moluccanus, as Aleurites moluccanus var. rockinghamensis in 1866. The Australian botanist Paul Irwin Forster promoted it to distinct species status in 1996. The type specimen was collected in Rockingham Bay, Queensland. It occurs in Australia and Papua New Guinea.
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Is it poisonous?
We have no record of Candlenut tree 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
- Aleurites moluccanus — considered toxic
- Reutealis trisperma
- Mallotus nudiflorus
- Macaranga capensis
- Hernandia sonora
- Vernicia fordii — considered toxic
Classification
- Kingdom
- Plantae
- Phylum
- Tracheophyta
- Class
- Magnoliopsida
- Order
- Malpighiales
- Family
- Euphorbiaceae
- Genus
- Aleurites
- Species
- Aleurites rockinghamensis
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