Scolopia braunii is a small to medium tree to 10m, with dense, attractive foliage, often found as a shrub.
Weed Category:
Weed:
No
Form or habit:
Small tree, Med tree
Family:
Flacourtiaceae
Leaf:
Simple Alternate Juvenile leaves are often diamond shaped with 2-6 angled margins (blunt teeth either side); adult leaves broadly egg-shaped, which may or may not have angled margins. They are thick textured, glossy and new growth is pink or browning red.
Flower conspicuous:
Inconspicuous
Flower colour:
White, Cream
Flower description:
Small, sweetly fragrant white or cream flowers on short terminal or axillary panicles.
Fruit conspicuous:
Conspicuous
Fruit colour:
Black, Orange, Yellow, Red
Fruit:
Fruit description:
Globular berries about 1cm across with a persistent hooked style. Ranging from yellow, orange, red then black when ripe.
Fruit is eaten by the topknot pigeon, Lewin’s honeyeater, figbirds and others. The foliage is food for larvae of the bronze flat and bordered rustic butterflies and a number of moths.
Toxicity:
No toxicity known
Origin:
Australia
Notes:
Propagate from fresh seed or cuttings. Very attractive foliage. Adaptable to a wide variety of soils. good screening plant as the foliage is retained to ground level.
Information sources:
Townsend K. & the Society for Growing Australian Plant Townsville Branch Inc. (1994) Across the Top: Gardening with Australian Plants in the tropics.
