Plants of South Eastern New South Wales

Ricinocarpos bowmanii

Male flowering stems. Australian Plant Image Index, photographer Murray Fagg, Australian National Botanic Gardens, Canberra, ACT

Female flower left, male flower right. Australian Plant Image Index, photographer Murray Fagg, unknown place

Flowering stems. Photographer Don Wood, Carnarvon Station Bush Heritage Reserve via Augathella, Qld

Shrub. Australian Plant Image Index, photographer Murray Fagg, Australian National Botanic Gardens, Canberra, ACT

Common name

Western Wedding Bush, Bowman Jasmine

Family

Euphorbiaceae

Where found

Western Slopes. Dry forest, mallee, and on rocky ridges.

Notes

Shrub to 1.5 m high. Branches hairy, often woolly. Leaves alternating up the stems, mostly 1–4 cm long, 1–3 mm wide, upper surface with sparse stellate hairs (needs a hand lens or a macro app on your phone/tablet to see), becoming more or less rough with age. Male and female flowers on the same plant. Flowers pink or white, with 5 petals each about 8-10 mm long. Sepals densely woolly. Flower clusters with 3–6 male flowers and 1 female flower. Flowering: winter to early summer. 

PlantNET description:  http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Ricinocarpos~bowmanii  (accessed 4 February, 2021)