Black Olive-berry
Elaeocarpus holopetalus
Family Elaeocarpaceae
Gondwanan cool-rainforest relict
About
A cool-rainforest shrub or small tree also known as mountain quandong, occurring in high-rainfall pockets from northern NSW to East Gippsland. Wikipedia's gallery for the species includes photographs taken within Blue Mountains National Park.
How to spot it
A shrub to small tree 5-16m (rarely to 25m) tall with densely woolly-brown hairy young branchlets. Lance-to-egg-shaped toothed leaves, white to pink-flushed flowers in racemes, and small black oval drupes 6-8mm long.
Found in
- Blue Mountains National Park