Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Santalum obtusifolium
Common name
Blunt Sandalwood, Sandalwood, Southern Sandalwood
Family
Santalaceae
Where found
Forest, rocky areas, and along streams. Coast, ranges, and eastern tablelands.
Notes
Shrub to 2.6 m high. Fruit fleshy. Small branches longitudinally ridged to angular, hairless, often glaucous. Leaves opposite each other, rarely almost opposite each other, alternating up the stems, or whorled, 2–6.5 cm long, 2–15 mm wide, paler on the lower surface, margins curved to rolled down, tips blunt or pointed. Flowers with 4 white to greenish 'petals', each 1.5–2 mm long, falling early. Flowers in clusters of 1–6 flowers. Flowers Nov.–Jan. Fruit blue to purple, broadly oval, 8–10 mm long.
Vulnerable Vic.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Santalum~obtusifolium (accessed 6 February, 2021)
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