Native Holly
Native holly is a common name for several Australian plants and may refer to: *''Alchornea ilicifolia'', in the family Euphorbiaceae *'' Lomatia ilicifolia'', in the family Proteaceae *''Platylobium obtusangulum ''Platylobium obtusangulum'', the common flat-pea, is a shrub that is endemic to Australia. It is a member of the family Fabaceae and of the genus '' Platylobium''. The species is an erect or straggling shrub that can grow up to 1 metre in ...

Alchornea Ilicifolia
''Alchornea ilicifolia'', commonly known as the native holly, is a bush of eastern Australia. It grows in or on the edges of the drier rainforests in coastal parts of New South Wales and Queensland. Description The native holly is a shrub or rarely a small tree up to tall and with a trunk that is usually crooked, with pale grey smooth bark, with some pustules and lenticels. Small branches greenish or fawn in color, with paler lenticels. The leaves are holly-like in appearance, long and wide. They are ovate or rhomboidal in shape with three or four acute lobes on each side, each of which is armed with a sharp spine. They are stiff and glabrous with a petiole around long. Flowers and fruit Greenish flowers appear in November, on racemes up to long, with male and female flowers on separate plants. The fruit is a dark brown, three-lobed capsule about in diameter, each lobe containing one seed. The plant may flower and fruit at any time of year after rain events. Taxo ...
[...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]  

Lomatia Ilicifolia
''Lomatia ilicifolia'', commonly known as holly lomatia or native holly, is a plant in the family Proteaceae and is endemic to south-eastern Australia. It is a stiff, erect shrub with hairy, rust-coloured new growth and which recovers from fire from a lignotuber. It has dull green, leathery, prickly, holly-like leaves and long sprays of cream flowers, usually after fire. Description ''Lomatia ilicifolia'' is a stiff, erect shrub which grows to a height of and has its young foliage and flower buds covered with rust-coloured hairs. The leaves are dull green, leathery and holly-like, mostly glabrous and egg-shaped to lance-shaped or elliptic. They are long, wide, have sharp teeth along their edges and a prominent network of veins. The flowers are arranged on the ends of the stems in a spike-like panicle or raceme long, each flower on a stalk long. The flowers are white or cream-coloured, long and more or less glabrous. Flowering occurs from November to February, usually foll ...
[...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]