Acronychia imperforata, commonly known as Logan apple, Fraser Island apple, or green tree,[1] is a species of rainforest shrub or small tree that is endemic to north-eastern Australia. It has simple, elliptical to egg-shaped leaves, small groups of yellowish or creamy white flowers and fleshy spherical to oval fruit.
Acronychia imperforata is a shrub or tree that typically grows to a height of . Its leaves are arranged in opposite pairs, simple, more or less glabrous and elliptical to egg-shaped with the narrower end towards the base, long and wide on a petiole long. The flowers are yellowish or creamy white and arranged in leaf axils in small cymes long, each flower on a pedicel long. The four sepals are wide and the four petals long and there are eight stamens that alternate in length. Flowering occurs in most months and the fruit is a fleshy, yellowish, pear-shaped to more or less spherical drupe long containing seeds long.[2] [3] [4]
Acronychia imperforata was first formally described in 1858 by Ferdinand von Mueller in Fragmenta phytographiae Australiae.[5] [6]
Logan apple grows in rainforest in near-coastal areas between Somerset on Cape York in north-eastern Queensland and Seal Rocks in New South Wales.
This acronychia is classified as of "least concern" under the Queensland Government Nature Conservation Act 1992.[7]