Family: Cunoniaceae
Plant: A tall spreading shrub or tree up to 20m high with wattle-like flowers.
Flowers: Fluffy creamy-yellow globular heads of flowers with numerous stamens. Flower heads are about 1.5cm diameter, stalked and lack petals.
Flowering: October-December.
Fruit: Capsules clustered into heads 1.5cm diameter
Leaves: Elliptic to lanceolate 4-12cm long and 3-5cm wide, opposite and with evenly toothed margins. They have prominent veins and are shiny, dark green above, woolly and pale greyish below – sometimes with rusty hairs.
Habitat: Along creek banks and gullies in rainforest and rainforest margins.
Features: Evenly toothed dark green leaves. Fluffy creamy-yellow heads of flowers.
Name:
Callicoma From Greek = beautiful hair (referring to its fluffy flowers).
serratifolia From Latin serra = saw and folius = leaf (referring to the toothed margins of its leaves).
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Type |
Shrub, Tree |
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Flowers |
Form |
Globular, Cluster |
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Colour(s) |
Cream, Yellow |
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Petal/Sepal No. |
- |
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Flowering Month |
10, 11, 12 |
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Fruit |
Type |
Capsule |
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Colour |
- |
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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 |
Toothed/Serrated |
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Attachment |
Stalked |
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Other Features |
Hairy, Discolorous |
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Bark |
- |
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Habitat |
Rainforest |
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