Tasmannia lanceolata | |
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Female flowers and immature fruit | |
Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Plantae |
Clade: | Tracheophytes |
Clade: | Angiosperms |
Clade: | Magnoliids |
Order: | Canellales |
Family: | Winteraceae |
Genus: | Tasmannia |
Species: | T. lanceolata
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Binomial name | |
Tasmannia lanceolata | |
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Tasmannia lanceolata, commonly known as pepper tree, native pepper, mountain pepper or mountain pepperbush,[2] is a species of flowering plant in the family Winteraceae, and is endemic to south-eastern Australia. It is a dioecious bushy shrub to small tree with lance-shaped or narrowly ellipic leaves, male and female flowers on separate plants, the flowers with 3 to 9 petals, and the fruit a deep maroon to glossy black berry.