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WALLABY APPLE
Pittosporum spinescens
Plant Family
Pittosporaceae
Alternative Common Names
Large-fruited Orange Thorn
Shrub or small tree to 8 m high, branchlets mostly spiny; spines 1 cm long.
Leaves - obovate or cuneate, 5–20 mm long, 2–10 mm wide, the midvein evident only on lower surface, smooth, mostly stemless.
Flowers - solitary and white. Petals 8–10 mm long.
Fruit - smooth round, 2-3cm diameter, pericarp thick, hard, ripening to edible yellow or orange.
Flowering spring to summer
Habitat
Grows in dry sclerophyll forest, dry rainforest and closed scrub, north from Warialda.
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