Streblus heterophyllus
Streblus heterophyllus | |
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Plantae |
(unranked): | Angiosperms |
(unranked): | Eudicots |
(unranked): | Rosids |
Order: | Rosales |
Family: | Moraceae |
Tribe: | Moreae |
Genus: | Streblus |
Species: | S. heterophyllus |
Binomial name | |
Streblus heterophyllus | |
Synonyms | |
Paratrophis microphylla |
Streblus heterophyllus, commonly known as the small-leaved milk tree, is a species of plant in the family Moraceae that it endemic to New Zealand.
As a juvenile plant S. heterophyllus has distinctive fiddle shaped leaves and a divaricating growth pattern.[1] It grows in areas of lowland forest where it will grow into a tree around 12 metres high.
The small-leaved milk tree flowers from the middle of spring to summer, with red berries following from late spring to autumn.[2]
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