Height to:	40 m	Diameter to:	1.5 m
Weight:	Seasoned (12% m.c.) approx. 720 kg/cu.m.	Bark:	Light brown, scaly.
Wood Colour:	Deep red-brown heartwood, sapwood much paler.	Flowers:	Tiny, white. April to July.
Texture:	Uniform texture sometimes with an interlocked grain.
Adult Leaves:	Deep glossy green. Oblong, lanceolate, fern-like. 8-16 cm long.

This rainforest tree has been banned from being logged in New South Wales state forests due to past over cutting. Some timber though, is occasionally available on the market. This would either have come from private land or from trees which have either fallen down in a state forest of have had to be removed because of some extenuating circumstance.

It is a beautiful deep red timber, although somewhat brittle, which has a distinctive rose-like odour from which it gets its common name. With some pieces of timber it is very hard to get a good finish as an oleo-resin exudate can persistently seep through making the surface very sticky. This resin can be removed with methylated spirits.