Scientific Name: Tasmannia insipida

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  • Pronunciation:
    tas-MAN-ee-ah in-SIP-ee-dah
  • Common Name:
    Pepper Bush, Rainforest Pepper Tree
  • Derivation:
    Tasmannia:||insipida
  • Type:
    Shrub
  • Family:
    WINTERACEAE
  • Vegetation Type:
    Wet Eucalypt Forest,
  • Species List:
    Bush food, FI Podberscek, Wooroi Day Use Area Tracks, Wooroi Palm Grove, Fraser Island, Upper Yandina Creek, NNP Tanglewood, NNP Palm Grove, Dandaloo
Cultural Notes

TAKE CARE! Some information about bush foods and medicines may be anecdotal. Correct identification and preparation is essential:

Bush food: Fruit sweet and spongy. Early settlers made pepper from tiny hot seed Sweet tasting fruits with tiny peppery seeds.

Identification Notes

Leaves: narrow, glossy. alternate, clustered in 5's, pseudowhols. simple, entire. two-lobed at base.||Flowers: small cream spring||Fruit purple fruit.||

Associated Fauna

Butterflies: Macleay's Swallowtail

Landscaping Notes

Useful plant in shade where it will grow without trouble if there is adequate moisture. Occasional tip-pruning will encourage a bushier plant. (Darren Mansfield)||Propagation is from seed, ripening March-April.||Successfully propagated by Barung Landcare||