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Toro
| Common
name: Toro |
Botanical
name: Myrsine salicina |
| Family: Myrsinaceae |
Maximum height: 8
metres |
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Where found:
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- Lower montane forest
- Up to 850 metres
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| Description: |
- An open branched tree
- The leaves are narrow, leathery and smooth (70-180 mm x 20-30
mm)
- Clusters of tiny (3 mm) pink flowers grow on the branchlets
- The drupes are 5-9 mm long and are red to orange
- Thick, dark red, furrowed bark
- Preferred food of possums
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PHOTOS:
Barry Hartley
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