Scientific Name: Synoum glandulosum

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  • Pronunciation:
    sigh-NO-um gland-you-LOW-sum
  • Common Name:
    Scentless Rosewood, Bastard Rosewood
  • Derivation:
    Synoum: Gr. syn - together, Gr. oon L. ovum - egg. refers to seeds in each locule of the fruit being joined together in pairs. glandulosum: L. glandulosum - glandular. Refers to gland-like hair tufts beneath leaves.
  • Type:
    Tree
  • Family:
    MELIACEAE
  • Flowers:
    Pink, white, Summer panicle to 25mm in leaf axil, time:throughout year
  • Fruit:
    Reddish capsule, 2 or 3 lobed Sept to Dec. green ripening to orange, two or three lobed capsule, 25mm diameter
  • Vegetation Type:
    Wet Eucalypt Forest, sub-tropical and dry rainforests, and moist gullies of open forest, Coastal scrubs Bega NSW to Bundaberg Q.
  • Species List:
    Hedges, FI Podberscek, NLTalks2010, NNP Palm Grove, Wooroi Day Use Area Tracks, Cooroibah 26.4.09, Wooroi Palm Grove, Cooloothin Corner, Old Tewantin, Tewantin Forest Gyndier, Fraser Island, Cooroibah Conservation Park, Cooroibah Bushland Reserve, Stratford Park, Upper Yandina Creek, Boreen Point, NNP Tanglewood, Dandaloo, Heritage Park, RE 12.1l.2.
Cultural Notes

Timber: Not a first class timber tree. Sapwood subject to attack by borers. Often small with irregular crooked stem, often hollow towards the centre in some localities.||

Identification Notes

Branchlets brown Leaf scars prominent ||Leaf: compound. Terminal leaflet present (imparipinnate) arrangement:alternate, 5 to 9 leaflets,base of leaf swollen where it joins stem Gland-like hair tufts beneath leaves||Bark: grey-brown, shed in angular patches||

Landscaping Notes

Successfully propogated by Noosa & District Landcare. ||Landscape uses; GULLY EROSION CONTROL; Shade Tree, bushy from an early age; Ornamental; Berries; Perfumed Flowers; v. attractive foliage small tree.||Good container plant and can be used indoors.||Excellent street tree for screen plant.||Propagation is from seed, ripening in spring and summer and germinating easily. Hardy in cultivation in a variety of situations. Requires well drained soils and should not be allowed to dry out when young.||Successfully propagated by Barung Landcare||