Athertonia diversifolia (C.T.White) L.A.S.Johnson & B.G.Briggs

Trees to 8-30 m tall. Branchlets densely ferruginous-tomentose. Intermediate leaves spathulate to elliptic or cuneate in outline, 7-80 cm long, 4.5-35 cm wide, with 2-13 lobes; lobes to 18 cm long. Adult leaves with petiole 10-30 mm long; lamina elliptic to obovate or spathulate, 10-37 cm long, 3.5-13 cm wide, moderately covered with appressed, ferruginous hairs when immature, upper surface glabrescent; tip rounded, obtuse, acute or acuminate. Conflorescence pendulous, 15-34 cm long; flower pair bracts and floral bracts similar, 0.5-1 mm long; peduncle 1.5-4 mm long. Pedicels 1.5-3 mm long. Tepals 19-23 mm long, cream to pale green, moderately to densely appressed-ferruginous-pubescent. Gynoecium 19-22 mm long, glabrous. Fruit 3.6-4.1 cm long, 3.3-3.8 cm wide, 1.9-2.6 cm thick, deep blue or pink with bluish patches.

A tropical plant. It grows in highland rainforest in Queensland, Australia. It grows up to 1,200 m altitude. It can grow from tropical to warm temperate regions. It needs moist well drained soils. It is frost tender when young.

The kernels are sweet and edible.

Plants can be grown from seed. The seed should be sown fresh. Older seeds need treatment to get them to grow. It can be grown from cuttings.