Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Beyeria lasiocarpa
Common name
Wallaby-bush
Family
Euphorbiaceae
Where found
Forest, rocky areas, and wet gullies. Coast, ranges, and the eastern edge of the tablelands.
Notes
Shrub or tree to 6 m high. Leaves alternating up the stems, 3–8 cm long, 7–20 mm wide, upper surface dark green, hairless and sometimes sticky, lower surface white-hairy. Male and female flowers on different plants or on the same plant. Flowers with 5 overlapping hairy 'petals' each 4–5 mm long. Male flowers 2 or 3 together, female flowers single. Flowering: summer-autumn. Seed cases 8–10 mm long, densely bristly hairy with translucent hairs.
Rare Vic.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Beyeria~lasiocarpa (accessed 5 January, 2021)
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