Plants of South Eastern New South Wales

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Callicoma serratifolia

Common name

Black Wattle, Callicoma, Silver-leaf Butterwood

Family

Cunoniaceae

Where found

Rainforest and rainforest margins, rocky gullies, and stream banks. North of Mogo. Coast, ranges, and tablelands.

Notes

Tree or shrub to 25 m tall. Bark smooth on smaller trees, scaly in larger trees. Young stems often reddish, hairy with long hairs. Leaves opposite each other, 4–12 cm long, 20–50 mm wide, margins coarsely toothed; upper surface dark green and almost hairless, lower surface generally white-hairy, sometimes with some rusty hairs. Flower heads white to creamy yellow, 10–20 mm in diameter. Inflorescences in the upper axils. Flowering: spring.

PlantNET description:  http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Callicoma~serratifolia (accessed 6 January, 2020)