Endiandra palmerstonii

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|name = Queensland walnut

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|image_caption = Finished timber

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|genus = Endiandra

|species = palmerstonii

|authority = C. T. White, 1920

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Endiandra palmerstonii, popularly known as Queensland walnut or black walnut, is a rainforest tree of northern Queensland. It was named after the Australian prospector Christie Palmerston.{{cite book |last1=Williams |first1=Cheryll J. |title=Phytochemistry of Australia's Tropical Rainforest: Medicinal Potential of Ancient Plants |date=2021 |publisher=CSIRO |page=360 |isbn=9781486307593 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=W51REAAAQBAJ&pg=PA360 |access-date=29 September 2022}}

Queensland walnut has been used as a furniture timber. It is also used to make guitars.{{cite web |title=Queensland walnut |date=12 December 2018 |url=https://www.business.qld.gov.au/industries/farms-fishing-forestry/forests-wood/properties-timbers/queensland-walnut |publisher=Queensland Government |access-date=29 September 2022}}

The nut was an important food source for Aboriginal Australians.{{cite journal |last1=Tuechler |first1=Anna |title=Transforming the inedible to the edible: An analysis of the nutritional returns from Aboriginal nut processing in Queensland's Wet Tropics |journal=Australian Archaeology |date=November 2014 |volume=79 |pages=26–33 |doi=10.1080/03122417.2014.11682016 |s2cid=148394536 |url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/268632220 |access-date=29 September 2022}}

It was initially classified Cryptocarya palmerstonii by Frederick Manson Bailey in 1891, and received its present classification from his grandson C. T. White in 1920.{{cite web |title=Flora of Australia, Volume 2 |url=https://www.dcceew.gov.au/sites/default/files/env/pages/bf97195f-fe6d-4017-ac00-e16cd0249814/files/flora-australia-02-winteraceae-platanaceae.pdf |publisher=Australian Biological Resources Study |access-date=29 September 2022 |page=203}}