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Mystery blue jellybean fruit - anyone know this plant?
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Peter Richardson
Joined: Mon Oct 29, 2007 12:16 pm Posts: 1472
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Mystery blue jellybean fruit - anyone know this plant?
I saw this evergreen understorey shub with inky blue, jelly-bean like fruit at Mossman Gorge on Sunday, and assumed it was a native, as it's in a World Heritage listed National Park rainforest. But, no-one at work has ever seen it and the suspicion is that it is a non-native. I wondered if anyone here could offer a suggestion as to its identity.
Peter.
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Mon Nov 12, 2007 11:08 pm |
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woodruff
Joined: Tue Oct 30, 2007 7:07 pm Posts: 53
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The only thing I can think of offhand with really blue fruits, is Symplocos paniculata, and I think the genus is fairly widespread and maybe reaches Oz, but if it has you stumped...
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Tue Nov 13, 2007 11:00 am |
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Zac in NC
Joined: Wed Nov 07, 2007 6:35 pm Posts: 1008 Location: Raleigh, NC
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Tue Nov 13, 2007 5:50 pm |
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Peter Richardson
Joined: Mon Oct 29, 2007 12:16 pm Posts: 1472
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Thanks David and Zac for the tip as regards genus. It looks like is indeed a native Symplocos, S. cyanocarpa
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I will look into getting it into cultivation, at the nursery, for those extraordinary blue fruit alone.
cheers
Peter
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Tue Nov 13, 2007 10:27 pm |
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Zac in NC
Joined: Wed Nov 07, 2007 6:35 pm Posts: 1008 Location: Raleigh, NC
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