Common name: Hard Quandong, Blueberry Ash, Whitewood, Grey Carabeen, Freckled Oliveberry, Grey Carrobeen
Elaeocarpus obovatus G.Don APNI* 
Description: Small to tall, strongly buttressed tree.
Leaves simple, lamina usually obovate to oblanceolate, 5–10 cm long, 1–4 cm wide, ± glabrous, margins usually irregularly and shallowly toothed to entire; domatia as glabrous flaps of tissue, 1–5 usually present on most leaves, or rarely domatia absent from some specimens; petiole 5–10 mm long.
Racemes borne amongst the leaves, mostly 4–8 cm long; pedicels 3–5 mm long. Petals 4 mm long, each divided into 8–16 linear lobes, white. Stamens 14–25, anther not awned.
Fruit ovoid, c. 10 mm long, blue.
Flowering: spring.
Distribution and occurrence: Tall tree in lowland subtropical rainforest, common; small to medium-sized tree in littoral and dry rainforest; north from near Gosford.
NSW subdivisions: NC, CC
Other Australian states: Qld
Text by C. Gardner & L. Murray
Taxon concept: Flora of NSW 1 (1990)
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