Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Trema tomentosa var. aspera
Common name
Native peach, Poison peach
Family
Cannabaceae
Where found
Regrowth, margins of, and disturbed, rainforest, moist forest, woodland, open rocky areas, and along streams. Sometimes a weed in gardens in the Sydney area and nearby. Coast, ranges, and the eastern part of the tablelands.
Notes
Shrub or tree to 8 m tall. Fruit fleshy. Bark smooth, grey, dotted with small lenticels. Stems hairy, remaining hairy or becoming hairless. Leaves alternating up the stems, 2–13 cm long, 10–30 mm wide, light green, rough, strongly 3-veined from the base, main veins on the lower surface usually hairy, margins toothed. Male, female and bisexual flowers mixed in the same cluster, male flowers predominating. Flowers green to whitish, with 4 or 5 'petals' each about 1.5 mm long. Flowers in few to many-flowered clusters with up to about 50 flowers, the clusters to about 40 mm long. Flowers Summer to Autumn. Fruit shiny black, round to oval, 3-5 mm long.
Family was Ulmaceae.
Was Trema aspera.
Presumed extinct Vic.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Trema~tomentosa (accessed 23 March, 2021)
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