Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Celtis occidentalis
Common name
Hackberry, American Hackberry, North American Hackberry
Family
Cannabaceae
Where found
Sometimes a garden escape, chiefly along banks of rivers. Mainly Sydney area. ACT. Occasionaly elsewhere.
Notes
Introduced deciduous tree or shrub to about 4 m high in the area covered by this key. Bark rough, fissured, often with corky ridges. Leaves alternating up the stems, 4–15 cm long, mostly 30–70 mm wide, margins coarsely toothed, upper surface rough, lower surface yellowish, hairless to hairy, veins prominent. Male and bisexual flowers on the same plant. Flowers greenish, with 5 or 6 'petals', free from each other, 2.5-3.5 mm long. Male flowers in few-flowered clusters at the base of the lower leaves of the cluster. Bisexual flowers single at the base of the upper leaves. Fruit maturing from green through orange or orange-red to purple or nearly black, globular, about 8-10 mm in diameter. Flowers early spring; fruits ripen late summer to autumn.
Was Family Ulmaceae.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Celtis~occidentalis
(accessed 1 May 2021)
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