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Smooth Mock-olive

Smooth Mock-olive

Notelaea venosa

Family Oleaceae

Rainforest-pocket tree

About

A member of the olive family found in the scattered rainforest pockets tucked into sheltered gullies within Beowa National Park's otherwise dry eucalypt forest.

How to spot it

A small rainforest tree with glossy, veined, opposite leaves typical of the olive family, growing in the moister gully refuges of an otherwise fire-adapted dry-forest landscape.

Found in

  • Beowa National Park

Source: Wikipedia: Beowa National Park

Photo: Peter Woodard (CC0 1.0) via Wikimedia Commons