Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Abrophyllum ornans
Common name
Native hydrangea
Family
Rousseaceae
Where found
Rainforest, especially along smaller watercourses, and sheltered gullies. North of Batemans Bay.
Notes
Shrub or tree to 8 m high. Fruit fleshy. Bark grey or light brown, smooth, with corky blisters. Young stems sparsely to densely hairy, becoming hairless. Leaves alternating up the stems, 10–22 cm long, 30–80 mm wide, hairless or with a few hairs, margins irregularly toothed, tips drawn out to a point. Flowers with 5 yellowish to greenish yellow petals each 4–5 mm long, in branched clusters 5–10 cm long, usually much shorter than the leaves. Flowers Oct.–Dec. Fruit blackish to purple-black, oval or oval to round, topped by the persistent stigma.
Family was Escalloniaceae.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Abrophyllum~ornans (accessed 29 April 2021)
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