Skip to Content (Press Enter)

Trema tomentosa

Image of Treme tomentosa

(Poison Peach)

FAMILY

Ulmaceae

Species

Trema tomentosa

Common name

Poison Peach

Flower colour; life form

Green, yellow; shrub to 4 m tall

Campus

Townsville

Description

A tall spreading shrub often on the margins of forested areas, leaves are alternate, simple, 3-veined at base, pubescent and the margins are serrated. Unisexual flowers in short axillary cymes, greenish to yellowish. Fruit ovoid fleshy 2-6 mm diameter, black. This plant is toxic to stock.