Scientific Name: Wilkiea macrophylla

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  • Common Name:
    Large-leaved Wilkiea
  • Type:
    Shrub or small tree
  • Family:
    MONIMIACEAE
  • Flowers:
    May to November - yellowish-green on separate plants
  • Fruit:
    Black ovoid drupe. Seeds several seated on small broad receptacle,not hairy, ripe April to September
  • Vegetation Type:
    Littoral and Sub-tropical Rainforest,
  • Species List:
    Kennilworth Fig Tree Walk, FI Podberscek, Cooroibah 26.4.09, Fraser Island, Janet, Upper Yandina Creek, NNP Tanglewood, NNP Palm Grove, Dandaloo
Identification Notes

Leaves widely and sharply toothed, or almost entire. Branchlets smooth and hairless Terminal buds scaly Stipules absent New growth red. ||"entirely glabrous.|Leaves oblong to elliptic, 8–22 cm long, 3–9 cm wide, apex blunt, base rounded to cordate, usually glabrous, stiff; teeth distant but prominent; finest reticulum usually rather coarse and obscure, but not conspicuously raised; petiole 1–10 mm long. |Male flowers 2–3 mm diam. with only the outer pair of perianth lobes duplicated inside; stamens c. 8; female flowers 3–4 mm diam. |Fruiting receptacle 3–8 mm diam., carpels c. 15." PlantNET ||

Associated Fauna

Butterfly host plant: Regent skipper.

Landscaping Notes

Successfully propagated by Florabunda Bushcare nursery, Woombye|Successfully propagated by Mooloolah Native Nursery||Successfully propagated by Barung Landcare||