Trochocarpa laurina

Tree Heath

Family:                Ericaceae

Plant:                   A shrub or tree up to 5m high with brownish-black corky bark.

Flowers:            Tiny white tubular flowers with 5 spreading lobes in terminal spikes 2-4cm long. The lobes and the throat of the flower are hairy.

Flowering:      January-April.

Fruit:                    Ribbed purple to black drupe 4-6mm diameter.

Leaves:             Alternate or whorled at the end of branches, shiny, elliptic to broad ovate 3-7cm long and 1-3cm wide, with 5-7 parallel longitudinal veins. The new growth is pink.

Habitat:              Rainforest and in wet sclerophyll forest near rainforest.

Features:       Parallel veins on leaves. New leaves pink. Leaves alternate or whorled. Small white hairy flowers.

Name:

Trochocarpa  From the Greek trochos = wheel and karpos = fruit (referring to the way the seeds are arranged in its fruit).

laurina            From the Latin laurina = like a laurel.

Search Criteria

 

Type

Tree, Shrub            

Flowers

Form

Tubular/Bell-shaped, Cluster

 

Colour(s)

White

 

Petal/Sepal No.

5

 

Flowering Month

1, 2, 3, 4

Fruit

Type       

Drupe     

 

Colour

Purple, Black

 

Other Features

Ribbed

Leaves

Arrangement

Alternate, Whorled

 

Type       

Simple     

 

Shape

Oval

 

Length    

Medium

 

Margins  

Entire

 

Attachment

Stalked

 

Other Features

-

Bark

Scaly/Corky

Habitat

Rainforest, Wet sclerophyll forest