Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
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Alyxia ruscifolia
Prickly Alyxia, Chain Fruit
Apocynaceae
Forest. Coastal in the Wollongong district. Also farther north, north of the area covered by this key.
Shrub to about 5 m high. Leaves with sharp spiny tips. Fruit fleshy. Stems usually hairless. Leaves in whorls of 3-6, 1-7 cm long, 3-30 mm wide, hairless, glossy, leathery, margins slightly curved down, entire or rarely finely toothed, tips pointed. Flowers fragrant, white, 6-11 mm long, tubular, with 5 lobes each 2-5 mm long. Flowers in 3-8 flowered clusters. Fruit orange to red, rarely black, single or in a chain of 2-4 fruit.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Alyxia~ruscifolia (accessed 3 January, 2021)
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