Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Scolopia braunii
Common name
Flintwood, Mountain Cherry, Brown Birch, Scolopia
Family
Salicaceae
Where found
Forest. Coast and ranges north from Jervis Bay.
Notes
Shrub or tree to 30 m high. Juvenile and regrowth shoots often with spines at the bases of the leaves. Fruit fleshy. Bark scaly, leaving depressions when the scales fall. Branchlets with prominent lenticels, more or less hairless. Leaves alternating up the stems, 3–12 cm long, 10–40 mm wide, papery, hairless or nearly so, paler below, margins coarsely toothed or angled, especially on juvenile plants, or entire to scalloped, tips gradually tapering to a point to blunt. Flowers with 4 cream to yellow petals each 1–3 mm long and 4 whitish green sepals 1-2 mm long, wider than the petals. Flowers in few- to many-flowered clusters 2–4 cm long. Fruit red turning black, more or less oval, 8-12 mm in diameter.
Family was Flacourtiaceae.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Scolopia~braunii (accessed 6 February, 2021)
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