Plants of South Eastern New South Wales

Callicoma serratifolia

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

Flowering branches. Photographer Don Wood, near Ulladulla

Back of leaf. Photographer John Tann, Royal National Park, Sydney

Common name

Black Wattle, Callicoma, Silver-leaf Butterwood

Family

Cunoniaceae

Where found

Rainforest and rainforest margins, rocky gullies, and stream banks. North of Mogo. Coast, ranges, and tablelands.

Notes

Tree or shrub to 25 m tall. Bark smooth on smaller trees, scaly in larger trees. Young stems often reddish, hairy with long hairs. Leaves opposite each other, 4–12 cm long, 20–50 mm wide, margins coarsely toothed; upper surface dark green and almost hairless, lower surface generally white-hairy, sometimes with some rusty hairs. Flower heads white to creamy yellow, 10–20 mm in diameter. Inflorescences in the upper axils. Flowering: spring.

PlantNET description:  http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Callicoma~serratifolia (accessed 6 January, 2020)