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Hedycarya angustifolia
Hedycarya angustifolia is a shrub or small tree from the rainforest margins of eastern Australia, growing 2 to 10 m tall with male and female flowers on separate plants. Grow it in moist, shaded or dappled conditions in a sheltered spot, similar to its rainforest-edge habitat.
Hedycarya angustifolia, commonly known as native mulberry, Australian mulberry, or djelwuck 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.
Hedycarya angustifolia grows in and near the margins of rainforest, often in moist mountain gullies, and is widespread from south-east Queensland, through eastern New South Wales and eastern and southern Victoria to King Island in Tasmania.
Indigenous Australians used the wood for spear tips and to make bow drills.
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Hedycarya angustifolia by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.
The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
