Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Trophis scandens subsp. scandens
Common name
Burny vine Crow ash, Purple crow vine, Fire vine
Family
Moraceae
Where found
Rainforest and along streams. Coast and ranges north of Bermagui.
Notes
Woody climber, or a scrambling shrub when young. Fruit fleshy. Stems with dense lenticels. Young stems hairy, becoming hairless and rough. Leaves alternating up the stems, 3–12 cm long, 15–50 mm wide, upper surface green and hairless, lower surface paler and more or less rough. Margins on adult leaves entire or with a few small teeth towards the tips, juvenile leaves often toothed or more or less lobed. Male and female flowers on different plants. Flowers small. Male flowers whitish, about 1.5 mm long and wide, with 3-4 'petals', in spikes 10–40 mm long. Female flowers greenish, the flowers surrounded by overlapping bracteoles obscuring the flowers except for the 2-branched reddish stigmas protruding through the bracteoles. Female flowers in heads about 5 mm in diameter, usually only 1–4 flowers developing fruit. Fruit red, more or less oval, 5–8 mm long. Flowering chiefly spring and summer.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Trophis~scandens (accessed 10 February, 2021)
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