Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Deeringia amaranthoides
Common name
Shrubby Deeringia
Family
Amaranthaceae
Where found
Forest and wet gullies. Coast and ranges. Occasionally on the eastern part of the tablelands.
Notes
Climber to 4 m high, or sometimes a small shrub, often flowering when quite small. Fruit fleshy. Young stems often rusty hairy, older stems usually hairless. Leaves alternating up the stems, 5–25 cm long, mostly 10-60 mm wide, soft, upper surface dark green and somewht dull, lower surface paler and somewhat glossy, margins finely toothed or entire, tips pointed. Flowers greenish or white, turning pinkish to red, with 5 'petals' each 1.5-2 mm long. Flowers in interrupted spikes to 25 cm long or in loose branched clusters. Fruit red, almost round, 4-5 mm in diameter. Seeds black. Flowers most of the year.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Deeringia~amaranthoides (accessed 9 January, 2021)
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