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Mickey Mouse plant, ochna

Ochna serrulata, Fam. Ochanacea


Shrub to about 2m, branches covered in corky lenticels.

Weed Category: Other invasive plants
Invasive plants that are not prohibited or restricted invasive plants, but are known to spread readily and cause negative impacts, within the region.
Weed: Yes
Form or habit: Shrub
Family: Ochanacea
Leaf: Simple Alternate
Alternate simple elliptic to oblong, 20-50 x 7-20mm, almost stalkless, margins finely toothed, dark glossy green; new growth has bronze tinge.
Flower conspicuous: Conspicuous
Flower colour:

Yellow

Flower description: Yellow 5-petalled, about 20mm in diameter, borne singly or in small axillary groups on short stems, 9-13mm long; perfumed.
Fruit conspicuous: Conspicuous
Fruit colour:

Black, Green, Red

Fruit: Fleshy
Fruit description: Green becoming black, one-seeded fleshy drupes to 8mm long, up to 6 clustered on bright red fleshy calyx.
Habitat:
Distribution
Food source for:
Toxicity: No toxicity known
Origin: Southern Africa
Notes: Spread by: birds and garden waste. Invades/threats: creek banks, littoral forests, rainforest and disturbed areas. Forms dense thickets out competing native vegetation. Notes: garden escapee. Small, scattered naturalised populations in this region. Environmental weed.
Information sources: Mackay Regional Pest Management Group (2018) Weeds of the Mackay Whitsunday Region Second Edition.

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