Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Symplocos thwaitesii
Common name
Buff hazelwood
Family
Symplocaceae
Where found
Forest. Coast and ranges.
Notes
Shrub or tree to 20 m high. Fruit fleshy. Bark smooth, becoming blistered on larger trees. Branchlets hairless, lenticels prominent. Leaves alternating up the stems, 6–17 cm long, 15–60 mm wide, leathery, hairless, margins usually toothed, tips pointed, midrib often broad and yellowish. Flowers bisexual, often functionally unisexual with male and female flowers on different plants. Flowers white, with 5-6 spreading petals shortly fused at the base, each 4.5–7 mm long. Flowers in clusters 5–15 cm long. Flowers mostly Sep.–Dec. Fruit bluish or purple to black, 5–15 mm long, 4–8 mm wide, oval to flask-shaped.
Endangered Vic. Listed in the Flora and Fauna Guarantee Act, Vic.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Symplocos~thwaitesii (accessed 9 February, 2021)
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