Foambark

Description:

Flowers are yellow/brown on branched stalks from branchlet ends from March-April. Fruit is a densely hairy, brown capsule splitting into three segments with a single black seed in each. Ripe August-September Yes, it has ornamental compound foliage and fruit. A very hardy plant. Propagate from fresh seed Bark was used by the Aborigines as a fish poison. It was also used as a foaming agent for beer during World War 1.

Habitat:

Small-medium tree up to 15m tall found in subtropical, dry and littoral rainforest and the sclerophyll forest ecotone in Manning River, NSW to Bloomfield River, Nth QLD.