Plants of South Eastern New South Wales

Beyeria viscosa

Male flower and leaves. Australian Plant Image Index, photographer Murray Fagg, Australian National Botanic Gardens, Canberra, ACT

Male flowering stems. Photographer Jackie Miles, Bungonia

Female flowers and leaves. Photographer Don Wood, Bungonia State Conservation Area near Goulburn

Fruit and leaves. Photographer Don Wood, Bungonia State Conservation Area near Goulburn

Common name

Sticky wallaby bush, Pinkwood

Family

Euphorbiaceae

Where found

Rocky places. Coast and ranges. Occasionally on the tablelands and Western Slopes.

Notes

Shrub to 4 m tall.  Leaves spirally arranged, 2-5 cm long, 5-15 mm wide, hairless, often sticky, margins flat or slightly curved down, tips pointed. Male and female flowers on separate plants. Flowers green, with 5 'petals', male flowers with 'petals' 2.8–5 mm long, with yellow anthers, in clusters of 1-5, female flowers with 'petals' 2-3 mm long, single. Flowers Winter to Summer. Seed cases sticky, hairless or sparsely hairy, 6–8 mm long.

Presumed extinct Vic.

PlantNET description:  http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Beyeria~viscosa (accessed 5 January, 2021)