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Common name: Turepo Botanical name: Streblus heterophyllus [old name Paratrophis microphylla]
Family: Moraceae Maximum height: 12 metres

 

Where found:

  • Lowland forests and forest margins
  • Moist areas, along creeks and river banks
  • Up to 450 metres
Description:
  • A spreading canopy tree with a trunk up to 60cm diameter
  • The small (25mm x 12mm) leaves are of varying shapes (round to oval) with serrated edges, the undersides are pale with prominent veins, juvenile leaves are narrower (5-10mm x 3-10mm) often fiddle-shaped and with wider serrations along the margins
  • Greenish hairy flowers on spikes singly or as pairs, the male tree is thickly covered with flowers, the female has sparse flowers
  • Fruit is a small (5mm) round red drupe
  • Rough, ringed bark

 

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PHOTO: Barry Hartley

 

 

 

 

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