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cassowary plum

Cerbera floribunda

Photo by Scott Frazier
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Field Notes

Description:

This spotting contains (new) fruit and a sapling from the same tree featured in previous spotting http://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/7783545. A detailed description is provided there.

Habitat:

Lowland equatorial rainforest (mixed coastal freshwater swamp forest and sago swamp).

Notes:

See also http://www.pngplants.org/PNGtrees/TreeDescriptions/Cerbera_floribunda_K… and http://www.skyrail.com.au/news/skyrail-nature-diary/1051-cassowary-plum Find a relative of the same genus (also spotted in Papua) here http://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/7184354

Reference Links:

EOL: Cassowary plum, Cassowary plum, Factsheet - Cerbera floribunda

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Comments (3)
Christiane
Cool.. I did not know that. I had a Cassowary father with chicks on my last place. They are so "Jurassic Park" After the Cyclone last year they had a really hard time here in FNQ.
Scott Frazier
Oh yes, the dwarf, southern and northern cassowaries. I don't have photos but over the years I've seen a few wild ones. I see sign rather more frequently http://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/7071260 Captives are fairly common...

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PublishedDecember 26, 2011

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