Scientific Name: Flindersia bennettiana

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  • Pronunciation:
    flin-DERS-ee-ah ben-net-tee-AH-nah
  • Common Name:
    Bennet's Ash
  • Derivation:
    Flindersia: honours explorer Matthew Flinders bennettiana: honours Dr. George Bennett, Australian Museum and Sydney Botanic Gardens.
  • Type:
    Tree
  • Family:
    FLINDERSIACEAE
  • Flowers:
    August to October
  • Fruit:
    Capsule. 5 segments. blunt prickles
  • Vegetation Type:
    Wet Eucalypt Forest,
  • Species List:
    FI Podberscek, NLTalks2010, Wooroi Day Use Area Tracks, Cooroibah 26.4.09, Wooroi Palm Grove, Fraser Island, Batianoff 87, Upper Yandina Creek, Boreen Point, NNP Tanglewood, NNP Palm Grove, Dandaloo, Stratford Park
Cultural Notes

Timber: used for plywood/veneer, flooring, furniture, turnery. Sapwood cream, heartwood pale straw, grain straight.

Identification Notes

**LOOK FOR: Long terminal petiolule, leaflets paler below.**|| Leaves: compound, 3-10 leaflets. (opposite) ||Bark: grey, wrinkled. ||Branchlets: brown, wrinkled with pale lenticels, becoming green and finely downy towards ends. ||Trunk: Leaf scars prominent.||

Landscaping Notes

Noosa Council Preferred Species list. ||Fire retardant species. ||Bushy shade tree for average soils. Slow growing. ||Can be affected by black sooty mould when stressed.||Successfully propagated by Coolum Community Native Nursery.|||Successfully propagated by Florabunda Bushcare nursery, Woombye||Successfully propagated by Barung Landcare||