Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Pomaderris aspera
Common name
Hazel pomaderris
Family
Rhamnaceae
Where found
Forest and woodland, particularly along streams and in moist gullies. Widespread.
Notes
Shrub or tree to 20 m tall. Bark dark brown, smooth with horizontal depressions, or finely fissured. Young stems rusty hairy with stellate to much-branched hairs (needs a hand lens or a macro app on your phone/tablet to see), remaining hairy or becoming hairless. Leaves alternating up the stems, 4-20 cm long, 20-80 mm wide, upper surface more or less hairless, strongly wrinkled between the deeply impressed veins, lower surface more or less whitish with stellate and much-branched hairs at least the lateral veins rusty-hairy, lateral veins commonly reaching the margins (rarely looping to the inside) and terminating in minute hair tufts, margins finely to coarsely toothed or scalloped, tips pointed to blunt. Flowers greenish yellow to cream, rarely tinged crimson, about 2-3 mm long, 3-4 mm in diameter, usually with 0 petals, rarely 5 petals falling early, and 5 sepals 1.5-2 mm long, in loose elongated branched clusters 5-35 cm long. Flowers Spring-Summer.
Hybrids between Pomaderris aspera and Pomaderris cinerea are referred to Pomaderris viridis.
All native plants on unleased land in the ACT are protected.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Pomaderris~aspera (accessed 2 February, 2021)
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