elaeocarpus plant blue quandong plant Elaeocarpus angustifolius is a rainforest tree in the *Elaeocarpaceae* family, bearing bitter edible fruit. It is commonly known as blue marble tree, and also as blue fig or blue quandong, although it is not closely related to figs. The junior synonym Elaeocarpus grandis, from a later description of the species by Ferdinand von Mueller, is also frequently found. A large tree up to 50 metres tall, usually with elaborate buttressed roots. It is found in the eastern Australian States Queensland and New South Wales and New Caledonia. The fruit of this species is round and blue, between 20 and 30 mm across, and has a seed with deep convolutions in its shell.[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elaeocarpus_angustifolius] Elaeocarpus sphaericus (Gaertn.) K. Schum. blue fig blue marble elaeocarpus angustifolius elaeocarpus grandis elaeocarpus sphaericus requires discussion