Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
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Helicia glabriflora
Smooth Helicia, Pale Helicia, Pale Oak, Leather Oak, Brown Oak
Proteaceae
Rainforest and near streams. Coast and ranges north from near Kiama.
Shrub or tree to 15 m high. Fruit fleshy. Bark grey or brown, smooth or finely wrinkled, with small warts and horizontal ridges. Young branchlets sparsely rusty-hairy, becoming hairless with age. Leaves alternating up the stems, 5–15 cm long, 15–45 mm wide, leathery, hairless, glossy, margins entire or with a few irregular teeth towards the tips, tips pointed. Flowers white or cream to pink, 8–13 mm long, tubular, with 4 'petals'. Flowers in elongated clusters 4–10 cm long. Fruit dark blue, oval, about 12 mm in diameter, hairless, ripe June-Nov.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Helicia~glabriflora (accessed 19 January, 2021)
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