Plants of South Eastern New South Wales

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Elaeocarpus reticulatus

Common name

Blueberry Ash, Ash Quandong, Blue Olive berry, Fairy Petticoats, Fringe Tree, Koda, Lily of the valley Tree, Scrub Ash

Family

Elaeocarpaceae

Where found

Forest, moist gullies, and along streams. Coast and ranges.

Notes

Tree or shrub to 30 m tall. Fruit fleshy. Trunk sometimes flanged at the base. Bark brown or grey, smooth or wrinkled, with horizontal markings and vertical cracks, and with numerous irregular blisters and lenticels. Stems hairless to sparsely hairy. Leaves alternating up the stems, 5–15 cm long, 10–40 mm wide, almost hairless, margins toothed, small hairy and often reddish domatia  in the vein angles along the midrib (handlens/macro app on your mobile phone needed), a joint or swelling present at the tops of the leaf stalks. Flowers with 4-5 white, occasionally pink, petals each 7-9 mm long, fringed or deeply lobed. Flower clusters mostly 5–8 cm long. Flowers Spring to Summer. Fruit bright to dark blue, 8-12 mm long.

PlantNET description:  http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Elaeocarpus~reticulatus  (accessed 12 January, 2021)