Buchanania (no common name)

Fruit eaten in kunemeleng; the trees often grow by the edge of rivers and creeks and fruits that drop into the water are eaten by pig-nosed turtles (warradjan), black bream (kalarrk / nakenjhmi) and northern snapping turtle (ngarderrhwo).

Slender tree to 15 metres high and tight, slightly rough, brown to dark grey, finely fissured bark. Leaves spirally arranged, smooth, leathery, elongated oblong, blade 50-260 mm long x 20-70 mm wide, green above, paler underneath. Flowers very small, cream to yellow-white, 2-4 mm long, numerous in branching panicles to 220 mm long. Fruit small smooth nearly globular drupe, to 10 mm diameter, reddish-purple to purple-black when ripe. Found in lowland and sandstone country in monsoon forest associated with permanent freshwater streams and drier vine thickets on sandstone hills.