Family: Myrtaceae
Plant: A shrub or medium tree up to 20m high.
Flowers: Terminal panicles of creamy-white flowers with 4 tiny circular petals and numerous stamens.
Flowering: November-February.
Fruit: Bunches of fleshy white to pink globular berries 1-2cm diameter. These are edible and have a slightly acid taste.
Leaves: Narrow-lanceolate or elliptic, 3-8cm long and 1-5cm wide, opposite, thick, glossy, dark green above and paler below with conspicuous oil dots and a long rounded tip. The new growth is an attractive bronzy-pink.
Habitat: Coastal rainforest and rainforest margins.
Features: Glossy, opposite leaves with drip tips and depressed mid-vein. Globular white to pink fruits in bunches.
Name:
Acmena After Acmena one of the nymphs of the Roman goddess Venus..
smithii After the English botanist James Smith.
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Type |
Shrub, Tree |
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Flowers |
Form |
Regular, Cluster |
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Colour(s) |
Cream, White |
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Petal/Sepal No. |
4 |
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Flowering Month |
1, 2, 11,12 |
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Fruit |
Type |
Berry |
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Colour |
White, Pink |
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Other Features |
Fleshy |
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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 |
Oil dots/Glands, |
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Discolorous |
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Bark |
Smooth |
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Habitat |
Rainforest |
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