Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Leptomeria acida
Common name
Native Currant, Sour Currant Bush
Family
Santalaceae
Where found
Forest, heath, and occasionally on rocky sites. Coast, ranges, and tablelands.
Notes
Shrub to 3 m high. Fruit fleshy. Branches almost cylindrical to angular, longitudinally ridged, covered with minute warts. Leaves narrow to triangular, 0.1–0.2 cm long, lost early. Flowers red to brown, yellowish brown, or greenish, with 4-5 hooded 'petals', each 0.6–0.7 mm long. Flowers in elongated clusters of 12–30 flowers. Flowers Summer-Autumn. Fruit greenish, yellowish-green, or greenish-brown, to purple, 6–8 mm long, oval to round, acidic, edible.
Rare Vic.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Leptomeria~acida (accessed 22 January, 2021)
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