Family: Myrtaceae
Plant: A shrub or small tree up to 8m high with reddish-brown, fissured bark.
Flowers: White, fragrant, 4-petalled flowers with numerous prominent stamens and borne in bunches of 3 in the leaf axils.
Flowering: September-October.
Fruit: Globular berry 5-8mm diameter initially red turning black.
Leaves: Opposite, ovate to elliptic 5-10cm long and 2-4.5cm wide with 3 prominent longitudinal veins – the outer ones following the margins. The underside of the leaves are paler and densely hairy. The oil glands on the leaves are easily seen.
Habitat: Mainly in gullies in rainforest and rainforest margins.
Features: Leaves are opposite and have 3 prominent veins and oil dots.
Name:
Rhodamia From Greek rhodon = a rose and amnion = a bowl.
rubescens From Latin rubescens = to become red (referring to its bark).
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Type |
Shrub, Tree |
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Flowers |
Form |
Regular, Single |
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Colour(s) |
White, Cream |
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Petal/Sepal No. |
4 |
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Flowering Month |
9, 10 |
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Fruit |
Type |
Berry |
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Colour |
Red, Black |
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Other Features |
- |
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Leaves |
Arrangement |
Opposite |
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Type |
Simple |
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Shape |
Oval |
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Length |
Medium |
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Margins |
Entire |
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Attachment |
Stalked |
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Other Features |
Soft, Oil dots/glands, |
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Discolorous |
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Bark |
Rough/Furrowed |
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Habitat |
Rainforest, Wet sclerophyll forest |
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