Alectryon oleifolius (Desf.) S.T.Reynolds

Small tree to 7 m high; young parts densely silky or puberulent; branchlets, leaves and inflorescence pubescent or glabrescent with white appressed hairs. Leaves: lamina linear or narrowly elliptic or obovate, acute, acuminate, obtuse or truncate, entire, acute at base, 3–16.5 cm long, 0.3–2.3 cm wide; petiole 5–10 mm long. Inflorescence raceme-like or panicle-like to 9 cm long; pedicels 1.5–10 mm long. Calyx finely 5–10-toothed or truncate, 2.5–5 mm wide, silky or glabrous. Stamens 8–12; filaments 1.5–4 mm long. Fruit obcordate, 2-lobed, rarely 1-lobed, 8 mm long, 8–12 mm diam.; pericarp thin, crustaceous.

It is a subtropical plant. It grows in sandy soils. It suits dry areas. In tropical Queensland it grows between 225-725 m altitude. It can grow in arid places. It suits hardiness zones 8-10.

CAUTION: The leaves contain cyanide.

It can be grown from root suckers. Seeds germinate under extreme temperatures.