Codonocarpus cotinifolius (Desf.) F.Muell.

Pyramidal shrub or tree to 10 m high, usually glaucous. Bark smooth, pale grey-pink. Leaves narrowly lanceolate to obovate, on young plants often broadly ovate, obtuse to acute, the lamina 15–50 mm long, mostly 8–50 mm wide, tapering to petiole of 5–10 mm; stipules minute. Male flowers in axillary racemes of up to 15; pedicels 1–2 mm long; bracts minute; calyx c. 1 mm long, very shortly and obtusely lobed; stamens 14–23; disc with raised rim. Female plant; flowers in axillary racemes or large terminal panicles, the axis sometimes growing out; pedicels mostly 8–20 mm long; bracts minute; calyx 1.5–2 mm long, entire to shortly lobed; carpels 30–36; stigmas c. 0.5 mm long, finely rugose; disc with raised rim. Fruiting carpels 8–12 mm long, rarely larger; column clavate. Seed obovate, 3.5 mm long, finely rugose; aril irregular.

It is a subtropical plant. It needs well drained soil and full sun. It is frost and drought resistant. It suits semiarid regions.

Essential oils described by W. Bottomley & D. E. White, Austral. Chem. Inst. J. Proc. 17: 31–32 (1950).

Plants are grown from seed. Plants can be transplanted easily. They can also be pruned.