Description
• Much branched, rounded and wide tree up to 15m high
• Leaves oblong to elliptic, upper surface glossy grey-green, dull underside, with hooked tip
• Fruit are usually about 7mm across
• Flowers creamy white, four petals about 3mm long, branched
Flowering Times
• October or November and fruit ripen over summer
Control Measure
• Hand removal of small seedlings up to about 1 metre
• Mechanical removal of large plants including roots
• Herbicides
Problems
• Highly invasive
• Rapidly spread by birds eating fruit and dispersing seeds
• Outcompetes and reduces native species
• Fruit have no value for oil production
