Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Ripogonum album
Common name
White supplejack
Family
Ripogonaceae
Where found
Forest and moist gullies. Coast, ranges, and the eastern edge of the tablelands.
Notes
Stout climber with stems to about 20 m long, sometimes shrub-like when young. Stems hairless, usually sparsely prickly. Fruit fleshy. Leaves usually in whorls of 3, sometimes opposite each other and often appearing compound, or alternating up the stems, 8–17 cm long, 25–55 mm wide, thick and stiff, surfaces hairless, tips pointed, bases tapering into the stalks, stalks 6-13 mm long, often twisted. Flowers fragrant, with 6 white to cream or pale green 'petals', each 6–10 mm long. Flowers on stalks 2–7 mm long, in 6- to many-flowered clusters. Fruit red to black, round to oval, 6–15 mm in diameter. Flowers spring-autumn.
Rare Vic.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Ripogonum~album (accessed 5 February, 2021)
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