CAT-00030
White aspen
Acronychia oblongifolia
Catalog fields
- Genus
- Acronychia
- Photo
- Not recorded
- Edible
- Yes
- layout
- single
- Habitat
- Grows in rainforest, near sea level to 1100 m altitude.
- Published
- Yes
- Food group
- Fruit
- Latin name
- Acronychia oblongifolia
- Fruit photo
- Not recorded
- Plant title
- White aspen
- Source URLs
- https://profiles.ala.org.au/opus/foa/profile/Acronychia%20oblongifolia | https://tuckerbush.com.au/white-aspen-acronychia-oblongifolia/; https://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?lvl=sp&name=Acronychia~oblongifolia&page=nswfl Open source ↗ Open source 2 ↗ Open source 3 ↗
- Catalogue ID
- CAT-00030
- Mature width
- 2-4m
- Native range
- Occurs from near Gympie, SE Queensland, to the vicinity of Lakes Entrance, SE Victoria.
- Plant family
- Rutaceae
- Supplier SKU
- Not recorded
- Listing group
- Nursery-listed / regional edible
- Mature height
- 6-8m
- Native states
- NSW, QLD, VIC
- Original list
- No
- Research date
- 10/10/2026
- Research notes
- Profile enriched from botanical/nursery sources. Dimensions are unpruned regional estimates where available; missing measurements remain explicit. Seasons are regional guides and vary with climate, location, cultivar and plant maturity. Drought and cultivation guidance are qualitative garden inferences, not measured ratings.
- Evidence status
- Nursery food-use source; preparation detail review pending
- Fruiting season
- Winter reported by nursery
- Background photo
- Not recorded
- Edible component
- Fruit flesh
- Flowering season
- Mainly autumn in NSW flora.
- Brief description
- Evergreen rainforest tree with glossy aromatic leaves.
- Drought tolerance
- Moderate once established; water during long dry spells.
- Preparation notes
- Use correctly identified ripe fruit pulp; seeds are not the food component.
- Flower description
- Small cream-white flowers in short clusters.
- General cultivation
- General guidance (qualitative): Promising with drainage, mulch and room for a tree.
- Botanical description
- Shrub, or tree to 27 m high. Internodes of young branchlets terete or slightly compressed. Leaves simple (occasional ones trifoliolate), glabrous; petiole 0.5–3.2 cm long; lamina obovate or narrowly so (in occasional leaves elliptic or narrowly so), 4–12 cm long, 1.4–5 cm wide, rounded or obtuse. Inflorescences few-flowered, axillary or axillary and infrafoliar, 2–6 cm long; pedicels 1.5–8 mm long (length similar in fruit), glabrous. Flower buds obtuse. Sepals 0.9–1.5 mm wide, glabrous adaxially. Petals 4.5–7 mm long, like staminal filaments deciduous in fruit. Gynoecium syncarpous, like fruit 4-loculed; ovary densely pubescent at apex, otherwise glabrous, like fruit with septicidal fissures in distal third–half. Fruit syncarpous, subglobose or mitriform, 5–9 mm long, without stylar beak, densely pubescent at apex, otherwise glabrous; occasional fruiting carpels with ruptured wall opening into locule; dried fruit as seen in medial transverse section with outer part of pericarp 0.5–1.5 mm thick, with fleshy exocarp and spongy mesocarp (or mesocarp apparently lacking); endocarp thinly cartilaginous. Seeds c. 3.5 mm long.
- Other botanical names
- Not recorded
- Attracts birds and bugs
- Native bees and insects visit flowers; canopy hosts birds.
- Flora of Australia profile
- https://profiles.ala.org.au/opus/foa/profile/Acronychia%20oblongifolia Open source ↗
- Fruit type and description
- White to pale pink fleshy fruit about 1 cm, often four-lobed.
- Flora of Australia citation
- T.G. Hartley. Acronychia oblongifolia. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water, Canberra. https://profiles.ala.org.au/opus/foa/profile/Acronychia%20oblongifolia (accessed 2026-10-14). Copyright Commonwealth of Australia; CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). HTML formatting removed; species-level context added where noted. Open source ↗ Open source 2 ↗
- Flora of Australia retrieved
- 14/10/2026