Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Leptomeria drupacea
Common name
Pale Currant-bush
Family
Santalaceae
Where found
Dry forest, often in shallow rocky soil. Ranges and the eastern edge of the tablelands south of the Hume Highway.
Notes
Shrub to 3 m high; branches almost cylindrical to prominently angular, longitudinally ridged. Fruit slightly fleshy. Leaves narrow to triangular, about 0.1 cm long, lost early. Flowers white, frequently flushed reddish-pink upon ageing, with 4-6 'petals' each 0.5–0.75 mm long. Flowers in elongated clusters of 6–15 flowers. Flowers Nov.–Dec. Fruit oval to almost round, 3–6 mm long, green, ripening reddish.
Rare Vic.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Leptomeria~drupacea (accessed 22 January, 2021)
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