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''Paratrophis pendulina'' is a species of flowering plant in the Morus (plant), mulberry family, Moraceae. In Australia it is commonly known as whalebone tree, and other common names include the white handlewood, axe-handle wood, grey handlewood and prickly fig. In Hawaii it is known as Hawai'i roughbush or ''aiai'' in Hawaiian language, Hawaiian.
It is native to New South Wales and Queensland in eastern Australia, and to New Guinea, the Caroline Islands, Mariana Islands, Norfolk Island, New Caledonia, Vanuatu, Fiji, the Tubuai Islands, and the Hawaiian Islands. It is usually a small tree or shrub, reaching a height of with a trunk diameter of .''Streblus brunonianus''
NSW Flora Online. Retrieved 23 April 2024.
The species can be a large shrub or small tree, rarely growing into a large tree tall and in trunk diameter. The trunk is mostly cylindrical or flanged. The Bark (botany), bark is brown, featuring lines of vertical pustules.(other publication details, included in citation)
/ref> The leaves are thin with a long pointed tip. long, alternate and simple. Usually finely toothed. The underside of the leaf is hairy, the top is glossy and mid green in colour. Leaf venation is more evident on the undersurface. Unlike in other species, the lateral veins do not terminate in leaf serrations. Flowers appear from September to May. Male flowers appear on spikes, female flowers on small clusters or spikes. The fruit matures from January to May, being a yellow coloured berry, long. The seeds are round, pale in colour and 3 mm in diameter.
In Australia it is found east of the Great Dividing Range, from near Milton, New South Wales, Milton (35° S) in the southern Illawarra district of New South Wales to the Cape York Peninsula at Australia's northern tip. It commonly grows in a variety of different types of tropical, subtropical, and warm-temperate Rainforests and vine thickets, rainforest, particularly by streams.
Germination from fresh seed occurs without difficulty within seven weeks. The fruit is eaten by birds including the brown cuckoo dove, green catbird, Lewin's honeyeater, rose crowned fruit dove and topknot pigeon.
In Hawaii it inhabits Hawaiian tropical dry forests, dry, Hawaiian tropical rainforests#Coastal mesic forests, coastal mesic, Hawaiian tropical rainforests#Mixed mesic forests, mixed mesic and Hawaiian tropical rainforests#Wet forests, wet forests from sea level to elevation.
NSW Flora Online. Retrieved 23 April 2024.
Description
The species can be a large shrub or small tree, rarely growing into a large tree tall and in trunk diameter. The trunk is mostly cylindrical or flanged. The Bark (botany), bark is brown, featuring lines of vertical pustules.(other publication details, included in citation)/ref> The leaves are thin with a long pointed tip. long, alternate and simple. Usually finely toothed. The underside of the leaf is hairy, the top is glossy and mid green in colour. Leaf venation is more evident on the undersurface. Unlike in other species, the lateral veins do not terminate in leaf serrations. Flowers appear from September to May. Male flowers appear on spikes, female flowers on small clusters or spikes. The fruit matures from January to May, being a yellow coloured berry, long. The seeds are round, pale in colour and 3 mm in diameter.
Habitat and ecology
In Australia it is found east of the Great Dividing Range, from near Milton, New South Wales, Milton (35° S) in the southern Illawarra district of New South Wales to the Cape York Peninsula at Australia's northern tip. It commonly grows in a variety of different types of tropical, subtropical, and warm-temperate Rainforests and vine thickets, rainforest, particularly by streams.
Germination from fresh seed occurs without difficulty within seven weeks. The fruit is eaten by birds including the brown cuckoo dove, green catbird, Lewin's honeyeater, rose crowned fruit dove and topknot pigeon.
In Hawaii it inhabits Hawaiian tropical dry forests, dry, Hawaiian tropical rainforests#Coastal mesic forests, coastal mesic, Hawaiian tropical rainforests#Mixed mesic forests, mixed mesic and Hawaiian tropical rainforests#Wet forests, wet forests from sea level to elevation.
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{{Taxonbar, from=Q125572290, from2=Q7622752, from3=Q385151 Moraceae Trees of Australia Flora of the Caroline Islands Flora of Fiji Flora of Hawaii Flora of the Mariana Islands Flora of New Caledonia Trees of New Guinea Flora of New South Wales Flora of Norfolk Island Trees of the Pacific Flora of Queensland Flora of Vanuatu Rosales of Australia Plants described in 1833 Taxa named by Stephan Endlicher