Erythroxylum_ellipticum
Erythroxylum ellipticum
Species of flowering plant
Erythroxylum ellipticum is a Northern Australian species of Erythroxylum. It grows as a shrub or tree.
It is locally known as kerosene wood or turpentine tree - because its green branches and twigs burn readily.
The shrub or tree typically grows to a height of 1 to 5 m (3 ft 3 in to 16 ft 5 in) and produces white-green flowers around November.
It is found on rocky hillsides and in creek beds growing in sandstone based soils in the Kimberley region of Western Australia[1] and extending across the top end of the Northern Territory and on parts of Cape York Peninsula in Queensland.
