Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Notelaea venosa
Common name
Veined Mock-olive, Smooth Mock-olive, Large-leaved Mock-olive, Long-leaved Olive
Family
Oleaceae
Where found
Forest, shrubland, rocky sites, and wet gulllies. Coast and ranges.
Notes
Tree or shrub to 10 m high. Fruit fleshy. Bark grey-brown, smooth, scaly, or flaky with squarish flakes. Branchlets hairy with minute hairs or sparsely hairy when young, becoming hairless, with conspicuous white lenticels. Buds at the bases of the leaves 3–5, more or less rounded or bluntly pointed, hairless or rarely hairy. Leaves opposite each other, 6–16 cm long, 15–65 mm wide, tips pointed, margins entire or shallowly scalloped especially in the upper part, surfaces hairless or slightly hairy when young; indistinctly dotted; upper surface dull dark green, lower surface paler, veins on both surfaces distinct. Flowers with 4 yellow to greenish white petals 1–2.5 mm long, more or less free from each other except joined in 2 pairs at the base. Flower clusters 5–11-flowered, sometimes 2-3 clusters together. Flowering: spring–summer. Fruit purple to blackish, sometimes glaucous, occasionally white with a pink tinge, distinctly longer than broad, 10–20 mm long.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Notelaea~venosa (accessed 23 January, 2021)
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