''Terminalia grandiflora'', commonly known as yalu, plumwood or nutwood, is a tree of the family ''

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'' native to northern Australia. The Nungali and Jaru peoples know the tree as badgari and the

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know it as barnyin. The weeping tree typically grows to a height of in height and is

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. It blooms between March and November producing white-cream-yellow flowers. The bark on younger trees is brown becoming grey and deeply fissured in older plants. The foliage is pendulous with green leaves that have blades with narrowly oblanceolate to narrowly elliptic shape, a length of and a width of . The flowers are long and have a diameter of approximately . The succulent smooth purple fruits form after December and have a globular or ovoid shape and are distinctly beaked. they are usually around long with a diameter of . The species was first formally described by the

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in 1864 in the work ''

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''. The only known synonym for the species is ''Myrobalanus grandiflora'' as described by

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in 1891 in the work ''Revisio Generum Plantarum''. and should be colloquially known as columbaroo almond It is found in creek beds and on floodplains in the Kimberley region of Western Australia growing in alluvium and sandy soils. It extends across the

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of the

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{{Taxonbar, from=Q17583038 grandiflora Trees of Australia Flora of the Northern Territory Rosids of Western Australia Plants described in 1864 Taxa named by George Bentham