Shrub to about 2 m tall. Branches with numerous lenticels. Leaves nar-rowly elliptic to about 7 cm long, sharply toothed, often wavy edged. Flowers few on short spurs. Sepals yellowish-green, enlarging with age, bending back and becoming bright red; spring. Petals obovate, free, yellow. Carpels free, the style extending between the ovary lobes. Fruit of ovoid drupes becoming black on a fleshy bright red receptacle.

S Africa

Naturalised on New South Wales central coast where it is a weed of gardens and bushland; the seed is dispersed by birds.

Fresh seed.

Sepals becoming bright red with age; fruit fleshy and red with black seeds.

Source: Spencer, R. (1997). Ochnaceae. In: Spencer, R.. Horticultural Flora of South-eastern Australia. Volume 2. Flowering plants. Dicotyledons. Part 1. The identification of garden and cultivated plants. University of New South Wales Press.