Plants of South Eastern New South Wales

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Drymophila cyanocarpa

Common name

Turquoise berry

Family

Luzuriagaceae

Where found

Moist shaded forest. Mountains on the tablelands south from Tallaganda State Forest east of the ACT. Western ACT and the mountains to the west. Occasionally elsewhere.

Notes

Perennial herb to 0.40 m high with a spreading rhizome. Fruit fleshy. Leaves alternating up the stems, 2.5–8 cm long, 5–15 mm wide, both surfaces hairless, midrib prominent, tips pointed. Flowers white to pale mauve, 10–15 mm in diameter, with 6 'petals'. Flowering: spring-summer. Fruit blue to purple, 5–10 mm long.

Family Alstroemeriaceae in VICFLORA.

All native plants on unleased land in the ACT are protected.

PlantNET description:   http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Drymophila~cyanocarpa  (accessed 12 January, 2021)