Endiandra hayesii is an Australian rainforest

Rainforest

Rainforests are forests characterized by high rainfall, with definitions based on a minimum normal annual rainfall of 1750-2000 mm...

 tree. Despite the common name of Rusty Rose Walnut, this tree is unrelated to northern hemisphere walnuts, and is a laurel

Lauraceae

The Lauraceae or Laurel family comprises a group of flowering plants included in the order Laurales. The family contains about 55 genera and over 3500, perhaps as many as 4000, species world-wide, mostly from warm or tropical regions, especially Southeast Asia and South America...

. The former habitat is lowland sub tropical rainforest, most of which has been cleared. However some trees persist in cool sheltered gullies as far south as the Richmond River, New South Wales to just over the border at Burleigh Heads in Queensland

Queensland

Queensland is a state of Australia, occupying the north-eastern section of the mainland continent. It is bordered by the Northern Territory, South Australia and New South Wales to the west, south-west and south respectively. To the east, Queensland is bordered by the Coral Sea and Pacific Ocean...

. The Rusty Rose Walnut is considered rare, with a ROTAP

ROTAP

Rare or Threatened Australian Plants, usually abbreviated to ROTAP, is a list of rare or threatened Australian plant taxa. Developed and maintained by the CSIRO, the most recent edition lists 5031 taxa. The list uses a binary coding system based on the IUCN Red List categories for "Presumed...

 rating of 3RC-. It is named after H.C. Hayes, who collected this species at Minyon Falls

Nightcap National Park

Nightcap National Park is in New South Wales, Australia, 35 km north of Lismore. It is classed by the IUCN World Commission on Protected Areas as Category II...

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Description

Usually a small crooked tree, however at Minyon Falls is a 35 metre tall tree with a trunk diameter of 60 cm. The trunk is usually straight on smaller trees, but buttressed in larger trees. The bark is fairly smooth with some scales, grey or grey brown in colour. Small branches with rusty brown hairs. With furry yellow leaf buds.

Leaves 6 to 12 cm long, and 3 to 6 cm wide. Hairy and dull particularly on the underside, with reddish brown leaf hairs. Leaf stem hairy, 5 to 10 mm long. Leaves veiny on the underside.

Flowers & fruit

Greenish white flowers form on panicle

Panicle

A panicle is a compound raceme, a loose, much-branched indeterminate inflorescence with pedicellate flowers attached along the secondary branches; in other words, a branched cluster of flowers in which the branches are racemes....

s from October to November. Panicles form from leaf axils or at the end of branchlets. Petals up to 2 mm long. The fruit is a purplish black drupe

Drupe

In botany, a drupe is a fruit in which an outer fleshy part surrounds a shell of hardened endocarp with a seed inside. These fruits develop from a single carpel, and mostly from flowers with superior ovaries...

, maturing from March to August. Tear drop shaped up to 3 cm long. The cream seed should be planted after the removal of the thin layer of green flesh.