Its bark was used by Aborigines as a fish poison. It contains saponins, which break the bonds of water molecules, causing them to lose oxygen. The fish suffocate and float to the surface. The effect wears off quickly if there is a flow, and it has not coated the gills.
Attracts Lewin’s Honeyeater, Paradise Riflebird, Regent and Satin Bowerbirds and Noisy Miner.
Host plant for caterpillars of Nacaduba berenice butterflies (Six Line Blue) along with other SAPINDACEAE and PROTEACEAE. The Caterpillar is usually attended by small black ants.

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Foliage

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Flowers
Jagera after Dr. Herbert De Jager, who collected plants in Indonesia in the mid 19th century for botanist Rumphius; pseudorhus from Greek pseudo false or imitative ie resembling but not equalling, rhus the Sumac tree of North America in reference to the similarity of the foliage. The word Jagera is (perhaps coincidentally) associated with local Aboriginal tribes in the Brisbane area. Or possibly the name might have derived from the Aboriginal word. It seems too much of a coincidence to be one

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Fruit and seeds

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Fruit capsules – Closeup

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Photo: Mark Crocker