Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Syncarpia glomulifera subsp. glomulifera
Common name
Turpentine
Family
Myrtaceae
Where found
Wet forest and rainforest margins. Coast, ranges, and the eastern edge of the tablelands, north from west of Bawley Point. Planted elsewhere.
Notes
Tree to 50 m tall, sometimes a stunted shrub. Bark fibrous to stringy, furrowed, greyish. Young stems densely hairy, becoming hairless. Leaves aromatic when rubbed, opposite each other or alternating up the stems, crowded into whorls of four at the ends of the branchlets, 5-12 cm long, 15-45 mm wide, upper surface dull green, lower surface usually white-hairy. Flowers white or cream, with 4-5 petals, each 3.5-8 mm long. Flowers fused at the base, in clusters of 7 flowers. Stamens 5–10 mm long, apparently in 2 whorls. Flowers Spring to Summer.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Syncarpia~glomulifera (accessed 9 February, 2021)
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