Kuntze Terminalia grandiflora, commonly known as yalu, plumwood or nutwood, is a tree of the family Combretaceae native to northern Australia.
[1] The bark on younger trees is brown becoming grey and deeply fissured in older plants.
The succulent smooth purple fruits form after December and have a globular or ovoid shape and are distinctly beaked.
[3] The only known synonym for the species is Myrobalanus grandiflora as described by Otto Kuntze in 1891 in the work Revisio Generum Plantarum.
[4] and should be colloquially known as columbaroo almond It is found in creek beds and on floodplains in the Kimberley region of Western Australia growing in alluvium and sandy soils.