Uses: Popular Australian small to medium tree from Queensland and NSW. Foliage is dense glossy green with bronze red flush of new growth. Fruit is small red to mauve berries. Useful in wider verges, median strips, parks and reserves. Planted singly as an shade or screening tree or en-mass as a barrier or formal or informal hedge.
Responds well to pruning.
Attracts birds for food source and habitat. Other cultivars are available including Syzygium australe 'Narrow leaf'
Syzygium australe 'Aussie Southern'
Note: Although this species is not classified under the Sewerage Act, it is recommended that it not be planted closer than two metres to any sewer main or connection.