A Genus so exclusive, it has only one member and its closest relatives are fossils.
Brought to the attention of the scientific community by timber cutters 150 years ago after they realised it looked kinda special, by the time the scientific community also realised how special it was, its only known habitat had been converted to farmland.
About 100 years later and a 100 miles away, a farmer investigating what was killing his cattle discovered a poisonous fruit – later named Idiospermum australiense.
Anyway, here's a photo of its flower I took earlier in the year of a specimen in the Cairns Botanic Gardens.
by Gold_Au_2025
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