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Alectryon coriaceus
“Beach Bird’s Eye”

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SHRUB OR SMALL TREE TO 5 METRES TALLBushy habit, leaves to 10cm long, small yellow/green flower sprays. Attractive green to reddish brown fruit which attracts birds. Resistant to salt spray. Host to 4 local butterfly species.

Suitability
Category	Medium Shrubs up to 5m
Family	Sapindaceae
Aspect	Full Sun
Soil	Moist, Well-drained
Habitat	Wallum
Features
Bird Attracting, Bush Food Plants, Butterfly Plants, Seaside Plantings
Localities
Pine Rivers, South Stradbroke Island, Sunshine Coast district
Host Plant For These Butterflies
Common Pencilled-blue (Candalides absimilis), Dark Pencilled-Blue (Candalides consimilis), Glistening Line-blue (Sahulana scintillata), Hairy Line-blue (Erysichton lineatus), Large Purple Line-blue (Nacaduba berenice), Short-tailed Line-blue (Prosotas felderi)
Fruit & Berry Food source for Birds Below
Australian King-parrot (Alisterus scapularis), Blue-faced Honeyeater (Entomyzon cyanotis), Brown Cuckoo-dove (Macropygia phasianella), Channel-billed Cuckoo (Scythrops novaehollandiae), Common Koel (Eudynamys scolopacea), Crimson Rosella (Platycercus elegans), Lewin's Honeyeater (Meliphaga lewinii), Little Lorikeet (Parvipsitta pusilla), Noisy Friarbird (Philemon corniculatus), Pacific Emerald Dove (Chalcophaps longirostris), Pied Currawong (Strepera graculina), Red-winged Parrot (Aprosmictus erythropterus), Rose-crowned Fruit-dove (Ptilinopus regina), Scaly-breasted Lorikeet (Trichoglossus chlorolepidotus), Silvereye (Zosterops lateralis), Superb Fruit-dove (Ptilinopus superbus), Swift Parrot (Lathamus discolor), Topknot Pigeon (Lopholaimus antarcticus), White-headed Pigeon (Columba leucomela), Wompoo Fruit-dove (Ptilinopus magnificus), Wonga Pigeon (Leucosarcia melanoleuca)