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habit of male tree with old flower clusters (Photo: Sheldon Navie)

habit of female tree in full flower (Photo: Sheldon Navie)

habit of female tree with some mature fruit (Photo: Sheldon Navie)

bark on main trunk (Photo: Sheldon Navie)

leaves (Photo: Sheldon Navie)

close-up of both leaf surfaces (Photo: Sheldon Navie)

large branched male flower clusters (Photo: Sheldon Navie)

numerous small male flowers on very hairy branches (Photo: Sheldon Navie)

close-up of male flowers (Photo: Sheldon Navie)

old male flower clusters (Photo: Sheldon Navie)

branched clusters of bright red immature fruit (Photo: Sheldon Navie)

close-up of brownish-coloured winged mature fruit (Photo: Sheldon Navie)

Triplaris americana

Scientific Name

Triplaris americana L.

Family

Polygonaceae

Common Names

ant tree, ant-tree, long John, long Jack, triplaris

Origin

Native to Central America (i.e. Panama) and tropical South America (i.e. French Guiana, Guyana, Surinam, Venezuela, Brazil, Bolivia, Ecuador and Peru).

Naturalised Distribution

Sparingly naturalised in northern Queensland.

Also naturalised overseas in South Africa.

Notes

Ant tree (Triplaris americana) is regarded as an emerging environmental weed in northern Queensland.