Plants of South Eastern New South Wales

Sarcomelicope simplicifolia subsp. simplicifolia

Flowers and leaves. Australian Plant Image Index, photographer Murray Fagg, Australian National Botanic Gardens, Canberra, ACT

Flowering stems. Photographer Jackie Miles

Fruiting stems. Photographer Jackie Miles

Leaves, fruit, and bark. Photographer Jackie Miles

Common name

Big yellow wood, Yellow wood, Bauerella, Hard Aspen, Yellow aspen

Family

Rutaceae

Where found

Forest, rainforest margins, and along streams. Coastal, occasionally in the ranges, north of Tathra.

Notes

Shrub or tree to 18 m high. Fruit scarcely fleshy. Bark corky and scaly, fissured longitudinally. Young stems hairy, becoming hairless. Leaves aromatic when rubbed, opposite each other or nearly opposite each other, rarely in whorls of 3 or 4; 3–17 cm long, 20–70 mm wide, hairless, upper surface glossy, lower surface paler, tips rounded to pointed, and usually notched. Flowers functionally unisexual with male and female flowers on different plants. Flowers white or cream, with 4 petals each 2.5–5 mm long. Flowers in few- to several-flowered clusters 8–60 mm long. Flowering: autumn–winter. Fruit yellowish or yellow-brown to whitish, hairless, usually 4-lobed, 10–15 mm in diameter.  

PlantNET description:  http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Sarcomelicope~simplicifolia (accessed 6 February, 2021)