Syzygium oleosum (Blue Lilly Pilly)

Syzygium oleosum fruit

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Syzygium oleosum tree

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BLUE LILLY PILLY FACTS

distribution map showing range of Syzygium oleosum in Australia

Map is from The Atlas of Living Australia web site, licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Australia License

Common Name
Blue Lilly Pilly

Other Names
Watergum; Coastal Cherry, Oily Satinash, Coastal Cherry, Blue Cherry, Blue Lilly Pilly, Scented Satinash, Blue Cherry

Description
The Blue Lilly Pilly is a tree growing 4 m to 15 m tall. The leaves are elliptic tapering to a point at tip, dark glossy above and paler underneath, and grow 3 cm to 12 cm long and 1 cm to 4 cm wide. The plant flowers in spring. The flowers are white or cream and produced in branched clusters. The berries are blue, purple or magenta in colour and 1 cm to 1.5 cm in diameter.

Habitat
rainforest, wet sclerophyll forest

Distribution
Blue Lilly Pilly is found in eastern Queensland and eastern New South Wales.

Growth Characteristics
Height: 15m

Classification

Class:	Magnoliopsida
Order:	Myrtales
Family:	Myrtaceae
Genus:	Syzygium
Species:	oleosum
Common Name:	Blue Lilly Pilly

Relatives in same Genus
  Syzygium australe
  Syzygium francisii
  Syzygium luehmannii
  Syzygium paniculatum
  Syzygium smithii
  Syzygium wilsonii