Hedycarya angustifolia

Hedycarya angustifolia
Female flowers
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Magnoliids
Order: Laurales
Family: Monimiaceae
Genus: Hedycarya
Species:
H. angustifolia
Binomial name
Hedycarya angustifolia
In a moist gully in the Blue Mountains National Park

Hedycarya angustifolia, commonly known as native mulberry, Australian mulberry,[2] or djelwuck[3] is a species of flowering plant in the family Monimiaceae, and is endemic to eastern Australia. It is a shrub or small tree with elliptic or egg-shaped to lance-shaped leaves and male and female flowers on separate plants. Male flowers are borne in branched clusters of 5 to 16 and have 8 tepals and about 50 stamens and female flowers have about 12 tepals and 40 to 50 carpels. The fruit is a more or less spherical, tightly clustered yellow or orange drupes.

  1. ^ "Hedycarya angustifolia". Australian Plant Census. Retrieved 28 May 2024.
  2. ^ Wiffin, Trevor P.; Foreman, Donald B. "Hedycarya angustifolia". Flora of Australia. Australian Biological Resources Study, Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water: Canberra. Retrieved 28 May 2024.
  3. ^ Foreman, Donald B. "Hedycarya angustifolia". Royal Botanic Garden Victoria. Retrieved 28 May 2024.