#trymalium

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#3803 - Trymalium ledifolium - Star Buckthorn

Another one growing around the granite outcrop at Sullivan Rock, SE of Perth. It also grows on clay, gravel, loam and sand, on limestone and laterite and on outcrops and dunes. It reaches 2.5 m high, under ideal conditions.

Another SW endemic (surprise surprise) and first described in 1837 by Austrian botanist Eduard Fenzl, who I don't believe I've come across before. The bionomial refers to three slits in the seed capsule when it ripens, and the resemblence of the foliage to that of Ledum species (although Ledum is now considered a section of the genus Rhododendron).

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#3617 - Trymalium odoratissimum - Karri Hazel

AKA djop born in the Nyungar language.

First described by John Lindley in 1838 in Edwards Botanical Register, based on a flowering specimen sent to a horticultural society in London by one Robert Mangles.

Somewhat notorious for exploding in population after fire - especially the 'prescribed burns' that supposedly reduce the likelihood of major bushfires, but instead turn the woodland into an inpenetratable thicket of Karri Hazel.

Kalamunda NP, Perth.

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#3493 - Trymalium sp.

A genus of shrubs, which with a single exception are all endemic to Western Australia.

The Rhamnaceae or Buckthorn family includes almost a thousand species, with some used as ornamentals or as a source of dye. Rhamnus itself was a very good wood for charcoal production and from there gunpowder.

Lol Gray, nr. Narrogin