| Blue plum | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Rosids |
| Order: | Oxalidales |
| Family: | Elaeocarpaceae |
| Genus: | Elaeocarpus |
| Species: | E. arnhemicus
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| Binomial name | |
| Elaeocarpus arnhemicus | |
Elaeocarpus arnhemicus, commonly known as elaeocarpus,[2] blue plum, bony quandony or Arnhem Land quandong,[3] is species of flowering plant in the family Elaeocarpaceae and is native to northern Australia, New Guinea, Timor and certain other islands in the Indonesian Archipelago. It is a tree with narrow elliptic to lance-shaped or egg-shaped leaves with serrated edges, racemes of white or cream-coloured flowers and metallic blue fruit.
- ^ "Elaeocarpus arnhemicus". Australian Plant Census. Retrieved 8 February 2021.
- ^ "Elaeocarpus arnhemicus". Northern Territory Government. Retrieved 8 February 2021.
- ^ F.A.Zich; B.P.M.Hyland; T.Whiffen; R.A.Kerrigan (2020). "Elaeocarpus arnhemicus". Australian Tropical Rainforest Plants Edition 8 (RFK8). Centre for Australian National Biodiversity Research (CANBR), Australian Government. Retrieved 1 July 2021.