''Cyclophyllum coprosmoides '', also known as Coast Canthium, Supple Jack, and Sweet Susie, is a shrub or tree occurring in eastern

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. It is commonly seen growing in a variety of different

rainforest Rainforests are characterized by a closed and continuous tree canopy, moisture-dependent vegetation, the presence of epiphytes and lianas and the absence of wildfire. Rainforest can be classified as tropical rainforest or temperate rainfores ...

situations, from

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to the islands of the

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Description

Growing up to 15 metres tall, the species is more often encountered as a tall shrub in subtropical rainforest,

monsoon forest Seasonal tropical forest, also known as moist deciduous, semi-evergreen seasonal, tropical mixed or monsoon forests, typically contain a range of tree species: only some of which drop some or all of their leaves during the dry season. This tropic ...

and

littoral The littoral zone or nearshore is the part of a sea, lake, or river that is close to the shore. In coastal ecology, the littoral zone includes the intertidal zone extending from the high water mark (which is rarely inundated), to coastal areas ...

rainforest. Fragrant white flowers form from January to March, turning golden brown with age. The fruit is a fleshy orange/red

drupe In botany, a drupe (or stone fruit) is an indehiscent fruit in which an outer fleshy part (exocarp, or skin, and mesocarp, or flesh) surrounds a single shell (the ''pit'', ''stone'', or '' pyrena'') of hardened endocarp with a seed (''kernel'') ...

, around 8 mm long. Seen from October to December. Within the fruit are often two seeds, one each within the two lobes of the hard capsule, surrounded by the glossy red

aril An aril (pronounced ), also called an arillus, is a specialized outgrowth from a seed that partly or completely covers the seed. An arillode or false aril is sometimes distinguished: whereas an aril grows from the attachment point of the see ...

. The mature fruit are edible.Ford, J. "Morphological and ecological divergence and convergence in isolated populations of the Red-tailed Black-Cockatoo." Emu 80.3 (1980): 103-120.

References

coprosmoides Flora of Queensland Flora of New South Wales Trees of Australia Taxa named by Ferdinand von Mueller {{Ixoroideae-stub