Scientific Name: Myrsine porosa (was Rapanea porosa)

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  • Pronunciation:
    rah-PAIN-ee-ah poor-OH-sah
  • Common Name:
    Northern Muttonwood
  • Type:
    Tree
  • Family:
    MYRSINACEAE
  • Flowers:
    White
  • Fruit:
    Greenish white to 3 mm
  • Vegetation Type:
    Eucalypt forest,
  • Species List:
    FI Podberscek, Fraser Island, Janet, Stratford Park
Identification Notes

Fruit: globular, bluish. |Leaves: alternate, simple, entire. Hairless, thick, fleshy, dark glossy smooth green above and paler smooth glossy green below. Venation faint on both surfaces. Oil dotes minute, numerous:|Midrib sunken above and prominent below..|Petiole reddish|. ||tips of branchlets not rusty hairy. ||Corolla lobes LONGER than corolla tube||**Leaves have a dark re base with slightly curved back edges (Nicholson)**||

Associated Fauna

Butterfly host plant: White lineblue.||

Landscaping Notes

Noosa Council Preferred Species list