Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Myoporum acuminatum
Common name
Boobialla, Mangrove Boobialla
Family
Scrophulariaceae
Where found
Forest, heath, and near salt to fresh water. Coastal, sometimes in the ranges.
Notes
Shrub or small tree to 13 m tall. Fruit fleshy. Bark rough, coarsely fissured, becoming corky. Stems hairless, smooth, rarely warty, at first resinous. Leaves alternating up the stems, usually 5-14 cm long, 7-35 mm wide, tips narrowing very gradually, surfaces different colours on each side, hairless, margins entire or obscurely toothed towards the tips. Leaf stalks 6-20 mm long. Flowers white with purple spots inside, with hairs in the throat, 5-7 mm in diameter, with a bell-shaped tube and 5 lobes, hairy on the front. Flowers in clusters of 3-8 flowers. Fruit purplish black, wrinkled to warty. Flowers Winter to Spring.
Family was Myoporaceae.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Myoporum~acuminatum (accessed 24 January, 2021)
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