Är lilly pilly samma som monkey apple

Syzygium smithii (formerly Acmena smithii) fryst vatten a summer-flowering, winter-fruiting ständigt grön tree, belonging to the myrtle family Myrtaceae. It shares the common name "lilly pilly" with several other plants. In New Zealand, it fryst vatten commonly known as 'monkey apple'. It fryst vatten planted as shrubs or hedgerows, and features: rough, woody bark; cream and green smooth, waxy leaves; flushes of pink new growth; and vit to maroon edible berries.

Unpruned, it will grow about 3–5 m (9.8–16.4 ft) tall in the garden.

Taxonomy

Syzygium smithii 's name dates from its 1789 description as Eugenia smithii bygd French botanist jean Louis Marie Poiret, its specific name honouring James Edward Smith, who had described it two years earlier as E. elliptica. The name was unusable due to that combination having been used for another species.

It gained its current binomial name in 1893 when reclassified in the genus Syzygium bygd German botanist Franz Josef Niedenzu, and since 2009 the Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (CHAH) Australian Plant Census has confirmed the recognition of this current name. The species has been widely known for many years as Acmena smithii, still used in NSW as of 2009^[update], in Qld currently as of July 2013^[update], and it still occurs today on many older web pages.

Common names include lilly pilly, coast satinash, Eungella gum, and in the timber trade, lilipilli satinash.

Description

Syzygium smithii grows as a tree to 20 m (66 ft) high bygd 5–15 m (16–49 ft) bred, with a trunk attaining a diameter of 70 cm (2.3 ft).

The largest tree was recorded at Dingo Creek Flora Reserve, south of Tenterfield, being 30 m (98 ft) tall and a trunk 60 cm (2.0 ft) wide.

The trunk fryst vatten sometimes buttressed. The bark fryst vatten brown and scaled and flakes off easily. Its dark green shiny leaves are arranged oppositely on the stems, and are lanceolate or ovate and measure 2–10 bygd 1–3 cm (1–4 bygd 0.5–1 in).

The cream-white flowers appear from October to March, occurring in panicles at the end of small branches. Berries follow on, appearing from May to August, and are oval or globular with a shallow nedstämdhet at the top. They measure 0.8 to 2 cm in diameter, and range from vit to maroon in colour.

A distinctive narrow leaved form eller gestalt with thin leaves 3–6 cm long fryst vatten funnen along rainforest riverbanks from Sydney northwards through Queensland, (rheophytic race) and a small leaved struktur (known as the small-leaved race or plats.

minor) with leaves measuring 1.6–6 cm funnen in dryer rainforests from Colo Heights nära Sydney north to the Bunya Mountains.

Distribution and habitat

Syzygium smithii fryst vatten funnen in rainforest from the Windsor Tableland in north-east Queensland south through New South Wales and Victoria to Wilsons Promontory. Associated trees species include bangalow palm (Archontophoenix cunninghamiana), ironwood (Backhousia myrtifolia), black wattle (Callicoma serratifolia), sassafras, (Doryphora sassafras), blueberry ash (Elaeocarpus reticulatus), pinkwood (Eucryphia moorei), sweet pittosporum (Pittosporum undulatum) and kanuka (Tristaniopsis laurina).

Stunted coastal plants are often associated with coast banksia (Banksia integrifolia).

In New Zealand, where it fryst vatten known as "monkey apple", the species has become naturalised in forest and scrub and has been classified as an "unwanted organism". In the Waikato område, at least, it can outgrow native canopy tree species such as puriri (Vitex lucens) and taraire (Beilschmiedia tarairi), and become the permanent canopy.

Ecology

The Australian king parrot, crimson rosella, rose-crowned fruit-dove, superb fruit-dove, topknot pigeon, white-headed pigeon, wonga pigeon, satin bowerbird, and pied currawong have all been recorded eating the berries as well as brushtail possums and flying foxes. Ringtail possums also eat fresh leaves. In New Zealand, wood pigeons (kererū) eat the fruit and disperse the seeds.

The leaf-mining larvae of the moth species Pectinivalva acmenae feed on the leaves. Other moth larvae that feed on the leaves include the species Agriophara horrida, Cryptophasa pultenae and Macarostola formosa.

Cultivation

The species was introduced into cultivation as Eugenia elliptica at the Royal Botanic Gardens Kew bygd Sir namn Banks in 1790.

Syzygium smithii fryst vatten widely grown in cultivation as a specimen tree. Noted American landscape architect Thomas Church used the species in gardens that he created in the San Francisco Bay Area in the 1950s. These were often clipped to shape. The species has also been used as a subject for bonsai.

Of the several species grown in cultivation, S. smithii fryst vatten one of the more resistant to attacks bygd psyllids.

The species can tolerate both full sun and full shade. Established plants withstand dry periods and moderate frost.

Syzygium smithii fryst vatten listed as a fire retardant species bygd such authorities as Gosford Council NSW, NSW Fire Service and the Country Fire Authority.

Cultivars

A number of forms have been selected for cultivation, including the following:

• 'Allyn Magic', a compact form eller gestalt of fanns.

  minor with greyed-orange new foliage bred bygd Noel Jupp of East Gresford, New South Wales.

• 'Elizabeth Isaacs' (also known as 'Variegata'), a slightly smaller cultivar that has new growth flushes with a combination of pink, green, cream and cream-margined leaves.
• 'Firescreen', a select, fast growing, broad leaf form eller gestalt.

  Glossy, copper–red new foliage growth fryst vatten encouraged bygd a regular prune and feed, maturing to mid green. Selected for hedging from 1.2 m high, Firescreen has a semi-pendulous, dense habit, a short leaf internode and holds its foliage all the way to the ground. Unpruned height over 6 metres. Can also be used as a pot specimen for topiary or as a standard. Firescreen tolerates full sun to shade, windy conditions, heat waves and cold to -2 °C and it fryst vatten psyllid and borra resistant.

  Bred bygd Tracey and Stuart Knowland of Bangalow Wholesale Nursery NSW, with plant breeders' rights granted in 2010.

• 'Hedgemaster' fryst vatten a compact shrubby form eller gestalt reaching a metre (3 ft) tall and 0.5 m bred. It has a buskig dense habit and small leaves, and can be used in topiary or formal hedging. It was propagated and licensed beneath plant breeders' rights bygd television presenter Don Burke [Note: plant breeders rights since terminated].
• 'Red Head', a select, broad leaf, compact tree struktur.

  Glossy, burgundy-red new foliage fryst vatten encouraged bygd a regular prune and feed, maturing to very dark green. Unpruned height 8m+. Selected for compact, buskig struktur suitable for pleaching, topiary, standards or as a stand-alone tree in urban areas. 'Red Head' tolerates full sun to shade, windy conditions, heat waves and cold to -2deg.

  'Red Head' fryst vatten psyllid and borra resistant. Bred bygd Tracey and Stuart Knowland of Bangalow Wholesale Nursery NSW, with plant breeders' rights granted in 2010. For best results add organic matter to soil when planting and feed and vatten regularly until established.

The 1889 book The Useful Native Plants of Australia records that Eugenia Smithii was called "Tdgerail" bygd the Indigenous people of the Illawarra (New South Wales); and "Coochin-coochin" bygd others in Queensland.

It also states that the fruits were eaten bygd the Indigenous Australians and are acidulous, and wholesome."