Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Duboisia myoporoides
Common name
Corkwood, Eye opening tree, Poisonous corkwood, Poison corkwood, Yellow basswood, Duboisia
Family
Solanaceae
Where found
Forest, rainforest regrowth, and wet gullies. Coast and ranges, north of Batemans Bay.
Notes
Tree or shrub to 24 m high. Fruit fleshy. Bark creamy brown, soft, thick and corky, strongly fissured on older plants. Young stems densely hairy with stellate hairs (needs a hand lens or a macro app on your phone/tablet to see), becoming hairless. Leaves alternating up the stems, 4–15 cm long, 10–40 mm wide, very soft, hairless, dull. Flowers white with purple striations in the throat, 4–8 mm long, tubular, the tube bell-shaped, 2–4 mm in diameter at the mouth, with 5 lobes each 1–3.5 mm long. Flowers in open many-flowered branched clusters. Flowering: mostly winter to spring. Fruit purple to black, usually globular, 4.5-8 mm in diameter. All parts of the plant poisonous.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Duboisia~myoporoides (accessed 12 January, 2021)
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