Queensland walnut
Finished timber
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Magnoliids
Order: Laurales
Family: Lauraceae
Genus: Endiandra
Species:
E. palmerstonii
Binomial name
Endiandra palmerstonii

Endiandra palmerstonii, popularly known as Queensland walnut or black walnut, is a rainforest tree of northern Queensland. It was named after the Australian prospector Christie Palmerston.[1]

Queensland walnut has been used as a furniture timber.[1] It is also used to make guitars.[2]

The nut was an important food source for Aboriginal Australians.[3]

It was initially classified Cryptocarya palmerstonii by Frederick Manson Bailey in 1891, and received its present classification from his grandson C. T. White in 1920.[4]

References

  1. ^ a b Williams, Cheryll J. (2021). Phytochemistry of Australia's Tropical Rainforest: Medicinal Potential of Ancient Plants. CSIRO. p. 360. ISBN 9781486307593. Retrieved 29 September 2022.
  2. ^ "Queensland walnut". Queensland Government. 12 December 2018. Retrieved 29 September 2022.
  3. ^ Tuechler, Anna (November 2014). "Transforming the inedible to the edible: An analysis of the nutritional returns from Aboriginal nut processing in Queensland's Wet Tropics". Australian Archaeology. 79: 26–33. doi:10.1080/03122417.2014.11682016. S2CID 148394536. Retrieved 29 September 2022.
  4. ^ "Flora of Australia, Volume 2" (PDF). Australian Biological Resources Study. p. 203. Retrieved 29 September 2022.


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