Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Trochocarpa laurina
Common name
Tree Heath, Axebreaker, Sandberry, Wheel-fruit, Waddy Wood
Family
Ericaceae
Where found
Forest and stream banks mainly north from Jervis Bay. Occasionally farther south.
Notes
Shrub or crooked tree to 13 m high. Fruit fleshy. Bark grey to brownish black, corky, finely fissured to platy or scaly. Hairless. Leaves in pseudowhorls at the ends of the branches, sometimes alternating up the stems or opposite each other, 4-8 cm long, 20-40 mm wide, with 5–7 more or less longitudinal veins, upper surface glossy and dark green, lower surface paler, tips pointed. Flowers white, tubular, the tube 2–3 mm long, with 5 lobes, the lobes and throat bearded. Flowers single or clustered in slender many-flowered interrupted spikes 20–40 mm long. Flowering: December–January. Fruit yellowish or purple to black, 6–8 mm in diameter.
Family was Epacridaceae.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Trochocarpa~laurina (accessed 25 March, 2021)
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