Scientific Name: Notelaea longifolia

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  • Pronunciation:
    no-tah-LEE-ah lon-gee-FOAL-ee-ah
  • Common Name:
    Long-leaved Mock Olive
  • Type:
  • Family:
    OLEACEAE
  • Flowers:
    white, 4 calyx lobes, 4 petals.
  • Fruit:
    drupe, dark purple or bluish black
  • Vegetation Type:
    Rainforest,
  • Species List:
    FI Podberscek, Emu Mt., Cooroibah Airstrip, Wooroi Day Use Area Tracks, NNP Parkedge/Alex, Cooroibah26.4.09, Wooroi Palm Grove, Cooloothin Corner, Old Tewantin, Upper Mt. Tinbeerwah, Mill Point, Johns, Cooroibah Conservation Park, Cooroibah Bushland Reserve, NNP Viewland/Brunjes, Upper Yandina Creek, Boreen Point, Noosa North Shore PS, NNP Palm Grove, Kin Kin Scrub, Dandaloo, NNP Coastal, BHNR, Kin Kin Arboretum, Stratford Park, NNS, Heritage Park,
Identification Notes

Rattles. Smooth. Leaf margins entire , except for juvenile or sucker growth. ||Leaves: opposite, simple, entire, thick, stiff, mostly hairless, dull to slightly glossy grey green above and paler below. Venation prominent on both surfaces.||

Associated Fauna

Butterfly host plant: Eastern flat. ||Fruit eaten by Brown Cuckoo-Dove.||