| Scientific Name : |
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Hypericum androsaemum |
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| Common Name : |
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Tutsan |
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| Height : |
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800 mm |
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| Description : |
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Tutsan forms a spreading, soft wooded shrub. Leaves are broadly Ovate, Sessile, to 150 mm long in opposite pairs along chestnut coloured stems. Flowers are in terminal cymes. The Sepals are ovate to 8 mm, becoming enlarged and Deflexed in fruit. Petals are bright yellow, Obovate to 8 mm, with numerous Stamens in five bundles, slightly longer than the Petals. The fruit is a fleshy berry-like capsule, globular, about 10 mm diameter, becoming blackish when ripe. |
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| Habitat : |
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A common weed in cool moist forests and along streams. |
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| Distribution : |
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Introduced from Europe, into N.S.W., Victoria and Tasmania. Common in Victoria in the Otways, Strzeleckis and the Dandenong Ranges. In the Park a common weed on the banks of Billys Creek. |
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| Flowering Season : |
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November December January |
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| Family : |
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Clusiaceae |
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| This is an introduced species |
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