Hopbush
Dodonaea triquetra, Fam. Shrub or small tree
Erect shrub or small tree with reddish brown angular to flattened branchlets.
| Weed Category: | |
| Weed: | No |
| Form or habit: | Shrub, Small tree |
| Family: | Shrub or small tree |
| Leaf: | Simple, entire, papery, green above and paler below, glabrous, not viscous, 3.5-14.5 x 1-4cm. |
| Flower conspicuous: | Inconspicuous |
| Flower colour: | |
| Flower description: | Terminal panicles of tiny, unisexual flowers without petals. Mostly winter to early spring. |
| Fruit conspicuous: | Conspicuous |
| Fruit colour: |
Brown, Purple, Yellow |
| Fruit: | |
| Fruit description: | Purple to yellow brown capsules with three rounded wings. Capsules fragile and in clusters of about 12 or more. Winter at least. |
| Habitat: | Open forest. |
| Distribution | Queensland, New South Wales, Victoria. |
| Food source for: | Fruit and/or seed eaten by the crimson and pale headed rosellas. Larval food plant of the fiery jewel butterfly and of the cup moth Anaxidia lozogramma. |
| Toxicity: | No toxicity known |
| Origin: | Australia. |
| Notes: | High germination rates have been recorded after fire in wet sclerophyll forests in New South Wales. |
| Information sources: | Melzer R. & Plumb J. (2007) Plants of Capricornia. |
