CAT-00035
Black apple
Planchonella australis
Catalog fields
- Genus
- Planchonella
- Photo
- Not recorded
- Edible
- Yes
- layout
- single
- Habitat
- Not recorded
- Published
- Yes
- Food group
- Fruit
- Latin name
- Planchonella australis
- Fruit photo
- Not recorded
- Plant title
- Black apple
- Source URLs
- https://profiles.ala.org.au/opus/foa/profile/Planchonella%20australis | https://tuckerbush.com.au/black-apple-pouteria-australis/; https://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?lvl=sp&name=Planchonella~australis&page=nswfl Open source ↗ Open source 2 ↗ Open source 3 ↗
- Catalogue ID
- CAT-00035
- Mature width
- 5-8m
- Native range
- Qld, N.S.W.
- Plant family
- Sapotaceae
- Supplier SKU
- Not recorded
- Listing group
- Nursery-listed / regional edible
- Mature height
- 10-15m
- Native states
- NSW, QLD
- 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
- Not resolved: nursery gives conflicting season and months.
- Background photo
- Not recorded
- Edible component
- Ripe fruit flesh
- Flowering season
- Spring reported by nursery.
- Brief description
- Large rainforest tree with dark bark and glossy leaves.
- Drought tolerance
- Low to moderate; prefers moist soil.
- Preparation notes
- Use fully ripe soft fruit pulp; remove large hard seeds.
- Flower description
- Small greenish-white, five-lobed flowers, solitary or in small leaf-axil clusters.
- General cultivation
- General guidance (qualitative): Promising only where a large tree fits; shelter and water juveniles.
- Botanical description
- Not recorded
- Other botanical names
- Pouteria australis
- Attracts birds and bugs
- Fruit-eating birds; native bees and flies pollinate small flowers.
- Flora of Australia profile
- https://profiles.ala.org.au/opus/foa/profile/Planchonella%20australis Open source ↗
- Fruit type and description
- Large purple-black fruit with fibrous white pulp and several hard brown seeds.
- Flora of Australia citation
- Australian Biological Resources Study. Planchonella australis. 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/Planchonella%20australis (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