Plants of South Eastern New South Wales

Syzygium australe

Flowering branchlet. Australian Plant Image Index, photographer Murray Fagg, Royal Botanic Gardens, Mt Annan near Campbelltown

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

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

Trunk. Photographer Paul Segal, north west of Taree.

Common name

Brush cherry, Creek satinash

Family

Myrtaceae

Where found

Forest and along streams. Coast and ranges north of Milton, occasionally farther south.

Notes

Shrub or tree to 25 m tall. Fruit fleshy. Larger trees with short buttresses. Bark flaky, more or less scaly. Young stems 4-winged or 4-angled, hairless, the wings joining above each node to produce a small pocket or hump. Leaves aromatic when rubbed, opposite each other, 2.5-10 cm long, 10-32 mm wide, tips pointed, surfaces hairless and glossy, lower surface paler; lateral veins generally visible; oil glands scattered, often faint. Flowers white, with 4 petals, each 3.5-6 mm long. Stamens 15-20 mm long. Hypanthium about 2-6.5 mm wide. Flowers often in 3-7 flowered clusters. Fruit pink to red, oval, 15-25 mm long.

PlantNET description:  http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Syzygium~australe (accessed 9 February, 2021)