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Mature fruit Habit on Mount Wellington. Tasmannia lanceolata, commonly known as pepper tree, native pepper, mountain pepper or mountain pepperbush, [2] is a species of flowering plant in the family Winteraceae, and is endemic to south-eastern Australia.
Tasmannia is a genus of about 36 species of flowering plants in the family Winteraceae, and is native to Australia and New Guinea, with one species (Tasmannia piperita) also found in parts of Southeast Asia.
They mainly consist of aromatic fruits and seed products, although Australian wild peppers also have spicy leaves. There are also a few aromatic leaves but unlike culinary herbs from other cultures which often come from small soft-stemmed forbs, the Australian herb species are generally trees from rainforests, open forests and woodlands.
This is a list of Australian plants which have had a common name prefixed with the adjective "native".. Early European settlers in Australia were confronted with a large variety of unaccustomed animals and plants, and in many cases gave them familiar names qualified with the adjective "native", based on some fancied resemblance, so what is now a koala was called a "native bear" and the dingo a ...
It is native to an area from the Peruvian Andes to southern Brazil. The bright pink fruits of Schinus molle are often sold as "pink peppercorns" although S. molle is unrelated to black pepper (Piper nigrum). The word molle in Schinus molle comes from mulli, [9] the Quechua word for the tree. The tree is host to the pepper-tree moth ...
Tasmannia insipida, commonly known as brush pepperbush, Dorrigo pepper, [2] pepper bush, pepper tree or faint pepper bush, [3] is a species of flowering plant in the family Winteraceae, and is endemic to eastern Australia. It is a shrub or small tree with lance-shaped or egg-shaped leaves the narrower end towards the base, the flowers male and ...
Native to Australia, the trees, which are commonly referred to as red gum or bloodwood trees (for obvious reasons), exhibit a shockingly human characteristic: they "bleed" when they're cut into ...
Agonis flexuosa var. flexuosa [13] is a tree up to 10 m (33 ft) high or a wind-pruned shrub, the branches sometimes zig-zagged, with leaves very narrowly elliptic, narrowly elliptic or narrowly egg-shaped, 80–135 mm (3.1–5.3 in) long and more or less flat and not twisted or wavy, and only the mid-vein prominent, the petals 3–6 mm (0.12 ...