Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Drymophila cyanocarpa
Common name
Turquoise berry
Family
Luzuriagaceae
Where found
Moist shaded forest. Mountains on the tablelands south from Tallaganda State Forest east of the ACT. Western ACT and the mountains to the west. Occasionally elsewhere.
Notes
Perennial herb to 0.40 m high with a spreading rhizome. Fruit fleshy. Leaves alternating up the stems, 2.5–8 cm long, 5–15 mm wide, both surfaces hairless, midrib prominent, tips pointed. Flowers white to pale mauve, 10–15 mm in diameter, with 6 'petals'. Flowering: spring-summer. Fruit blue to purple, 5–10 mm long.
Family Alstroemeriaceae in VICFLORA.
All native plants on unleased land in the ACT are protected.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Drymophila~cyanocarpa (accessed 12 January, 2021)
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