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Akeake
| Common
name: Akeake |
Botanical
name: Dodonaea viscosa |
| Family: Sapindaceae
(Soap berry family) |
Maximum height:
7 metres |
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| Where found: |
- Sea level to 550 metres
- Exposed coastal situations, lowland scrub and forests
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| Description: |
- Erect shrub or small tree with spreading upright branches.
- Branchlets and leaf buds are usually sticky. Fibrous, spreading
root system.
- Narrow elliptical leaves supported by 1cm long petioles (leaf
stalks). 40-100 mm long by 10-30 mm wide. Dark green on upper
surfaces with lime-green underneath.
- Flowering from September to January. Flowers without petals,
in groups (panicles) up to 40 mm long. The fruit is a compressed,
yellowish-red seed capsule about 15 mm across with two to three
thin, veined, broad, lobed wings. Fruits from November to March.
Male and female flowers on separate trees (dioecious).
- Thin reddish-brown flaky bark.
- Tolerance:
frost-moderate, wind-high, salt-high, drought-high, waterlogging-low
Environmental
Tolerances - key
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PHOTOS:
Barry Hartley
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