Quassia sp. Mount Nardi is a plant found in north eastern New South Wales

New South Wales

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, Australia

Australia

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. An uncommon to rare plant, yet to be formally named. The original specimen was collected at Mount Nardi, not far from Nimbin

Nimbin, New South Wales

Nimbin is a village in the Northern Rivers area of the Australian state of New South Wales, approximately 30 km north of Lismore, 33 km southeast of Kyogle, and 70 km west of Byron Bay....

.

It grows below rainforest

Rainforest

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

, in high rainfall areas. Often found at altitudes around 650 metres above sea level, on soils based on rhyolite

Rhyolite

This page is about a volcanic rock. For the ghost town see Rhyolite, Nevada, and for the satellite system, see Rhyolite/Aquacade.Rhyolite is an igneous, volcanic rock, of felsic composition . It may have any texture from glassy to aphanitic to porphyritic...

 or basalt

Basalt

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. It grows between Dorrigo

Dorrigo, New South Wales

Dorrigo is a small town located on the Waterfall Way in northern New South Wales, Australia. It is approximately 580 kilometres north of the state capital, Sydney via the Pacific Highway, and 60 kilometres from the coastal city of Coffs Harbour. The town is situated on the Dorrigo Plateau near the...

 in the south to the Tweed River in the north.

A bush up to 5 metres tall with a stem diameter of 10 cm. Often seen with two or more stems. Leaves are smooth edged, 8 to 16 cm long and 1.5 to 3 cm wide. A fairly dull green above and yellow green below the leaf. The midrib vein is darker on the bottom side, but paler above. An intramarginal leaf vein is parallel to the edge of the leaf, starting from the termination of the lateral leaf veins. Reddish/green flowers form on slender stalks, from July to February. The fruit is an attractive orange or red 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...

, 15 to 20 mm long. Germination from fresh seed can take up to six months, but some seeds will germinate within three weeks.