Plants of South Eastern New South Wales

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Notelaea ligustrina

Common name

Privet Mock-olive, Silkwood, Southern Mock-olive

Family

Oleaceae

Where found

Forest, rocky slopes, and gullies. Ranges south from the Budawang Range.

Notes

Tree or shrub to 16 m high. Fruit fleshy. Bark dark brown, fissured to scaly. Young stems densely hairy, often purplish, soon becoming hairless, lenticels prominent. Buds at the bases of the leaves single, sometimes 2-3 together. Leaves opposite each other, 2–10 cm long, 4–25 mm wide, tips blunt, margins entire, thick, both surfaces dull and hairless, upper surface dark green, lower surface paler; veins on the upper surface obscure. Flowers with 4 yellow to green petals 1-1.5 mm long, more or less free from each other except joined in 2 pairs at the base. Calyx with prominent approximately triangular teeth. Flower clusters 1-3 together, each of 7-13 flowers. Flowering: January–April. Fruit white or pink to dark purple-black, round to oval,  6–12 mm long.

Was Nestegis ligustrina.

PlantNET description:  http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Notelaea~ligustrina(accessed 23 January, 2021)