Plants of South Eastern New South Wales

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Toxicodendron succedaneum

Common name

Rhus tree

Family

Anacardiaceae

Where found

Forest, woodland, roadsides, gardens, and disturbed sites. Sydney area.

Notes

Introduced tree to 8 m high, deciduous. Bark smooth. Branchlets hairless, with a few lenticels. Leaves alternating up the branchlets, compound, 10–35 cm long; with 9–15 leaflets each 4–10 cm long, 15–30 mm wide, tips long-pointed, margins entire, both surfaces hairless, lower surface more or less glaucous. Male and female flowers in the same cluster. Flowers creamy white to yellowish green, 2-6 mm in diameter, with 5 petals, in many-flowered clusters. Fruit pale brown or blackish when ripe. Poisonous.

General Biosecurity Duty all NSW. Pest plant ACT.

PlantNET description:  http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Toxicodendron~succedaneum (accessed 7 February, 2021)