Syncarpia hillii is a tree of the family Myrtaceae which grows on K'gari (Fraser Island), Queensland, and the surrounding Cooloola area.

[1] Large examples of this tree may be seen growing at the 'Central Station' picnic area on Fraser Island.

A small plot of these trees has also been found on Moreton Island growing in a gully behind Mt Tempest.

Rollo Petrie, grandson of Tom Petrie, who grew up on K'gari and learned the language of the forest, calls it the peebang tree in his memoir, Early Days on Fraser Island, 1913 to 1922.

If it is cut down I shall die, but I will sing the "Kgari Spirit Song" so all Kgari desecrators will perish" (Roll Petrie, August 1990, taken from his "Nomination of the Great Sandy Region for World Heritage" listing (an unpublished paper).