Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Elaeodendron australe var. australe
Common name
Red olive plum
Family
Celastraceae
Where found
Forest and along streams. Coast and ranges north from Tuross Head.
Notes
Shrub or small tree to 8 m high, hairless. Fruit fleshy. Bark dark brown with blisters, somewhat wrinkled in older trees. Leaves opposite each other or occasionally alternating up the stems, 2.7–11 cm long, 15-70 mm wide, glossy, margins scalloped or bluntly toothed, sometimes entire. Male and female flowers on different plants. Flowers green to yellowish, 5-7 mm in diameter, with 4 petals. Female flowers with stamens that do not produce pollen. Flowers in few-flowered clusters. Flowers Spring. Fruit orange-red, turning black at maturity, more or less oval, 12–24 mm long. Fruits Spring.
Was Cassine australis.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Elaeodendron~australe (accessed 13 January, 2021)
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