
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