Exocarpos Cupressiformis

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Common Name:

NATIVE CHERRY

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WHAT IT LOOKS LIKE:

1. Spreading rounded shrub growing 1–4 m high and wide

2. Branchlets yellow or reddish, minutely hairy

3. ‘Leaves’ grey-green, 1.5–5 cm long, 3–7 mm wide, radiating around branchlets, variable in shape

4. Bright golden ball flowers in heavy clusters at branch ends; flower stalks stout, with minute golden hairs; flowering April to October

5. Seed pods straight or curved, 5–10 cm long, 4–9 mm wide, dark brown at maturity, may have a whitish bloom
Has the general appearance of a conifer with attractive weeping foliage of yellowish-green to dark green colour.
Often be seen growing along roadsides close to eucalypts which it apparently uses as hosts.
The small cream flowers are inconspicuous and are followed by the fruit which is a small nut about 0.5 cm in diameter.
The nut is attached to a fleshy fruit-like structure which is actually an enlarged, succulent section of the flower stalk.
The enlarged stalk (which is edible) is usually bright red and gives rise to the common name of the species.

WHERE IT GROWS & WHY:

Well drained moist to drier clay and poor soils in open forests of foothills and mountains.
Frost tolerant.
Full sun, semi-shade.

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Image Source: Fagg, M. via Australian National Botanic Gardens (ANBG)

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