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.
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Tree, Shrub |
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Flowers |
Form |
Tubular/Bell-shaped, Cluster |
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Colour(s) |
White |
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Petal/Sepal No. |
5 |
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Flowering Month |
1, 2, 3, 4 |
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Fruit |
Type |
Drupe |
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Colour |
Purple, Black |
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Other Features |
Ribbed |
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Leaves |
Arrangement |
Alternate, Whorled |
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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 |
- |
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Bark |
Scaly/Corky |
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Habitat |
Rainforest, Wet sclerophyll forest |
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