These prints are also available at the Frances Keevil Gallery in Sydney, Emporium Botanica in Melbourne and Gallery 126 in Armidale NSW
Flindersia australis is a tall (to 40m), rainforest tree found from north of Mackay in Queensland to the Nymboida River in northern New South Wales. The name Flindersia commemorates Captain Matthew Flinders (1774 - 1814), the navigator and leader of the expedition that first collected plants of this genus. The Latin species name australis means southern. The common names of this tree derive from the qualities of the timber which was much sought after. The sapwood is pale yellow, and the heartwood yellow-brown with a greasy texture and hard, interlocked grain. It is one of the most durable and valuable of the Australian timbers, used for dance floors, ship building, railway sleepers, decking, carriage and coach building.
The fruit is a blunt-prickly, woody capsule that spreads open into five valves to release the winged seeds when ripe. The outer surface of the capsule is covered with a dense indumentum of very short, velvety hairs. The capsule and fruits are shown 2½ times life size in this print.
