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Tasmannia insipida

Tasmannia insipida
Photo: Poyt448 Peter Woodard, CC0
Family
Winteraceae (Winter family)
Grows as
Tree, Shrub
Native range
New Guinea, E. Australia
Climate
subtropical

About

Tasmannia insipida, commonly known as brush pepperbush, Dorrigo pepper, pepper bush, pepper tree or faint pepper bush, is a species of flowering plant in the family Winteraceae, and is endemic to eastern Australia. It is a shrub or small tree with lance-shaped or egg-shaped leaves the narrower end towards the base, the flowers male and female flowers on separate plants, male flowers with 17 to 65 stamens, female flowers with a single carpel with 15-40 ovules, and the fruit a purplish berry.

Where it grows

Tasmannia insipida can be found in the cool wet forests or coasts of eastern Australia, from Moruya on the southern coast of New South Wales to the area around Rossville in northern Queensland.

Other Drimys plants

Drimys andina · Drimys angustifolia · Drimys brasiliensis · Drimys confertifolia · Drimys granadensis · Drimys roraimensis · Winter's bark · Drimys · Tasmannia glaucifolia · Mountain pepper · Pepper tree · Tasmannia piperita

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Tasmannia insipida by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.

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.

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