| Riberry
Syzygium luehmannii |
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| Family: MYRTACEAE | Distribution: Queensland to Kempsey |
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Description: Medium sized to large buttressed tree. Leaves glossy – green, lower surface paler, opposite, ovate to narrow-ovate, 2.5-7.5 cm long, 1-3 cm wide, new growth pink. Flowers white occurring October-December. Fruit pink to red, obovoid or pyriform, 9-12 mm long, 6-10 mm diam. with a single seed (solitary embryo). Usually found growing in littoral rainforest.
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Propagation: Propagate with freshly collected
seed from ripe fruit. Remove seed from fruit and plant immediately in clean seedling mix of 2/3 washed river sand and 1/3 peat moss or organic matter. Prick out seedlings into tubes at
cotyledon stage if possible. Seed will store if kept cool and dry and protected from insect and vermin attack, but germination drops off over time. Plants can be grown from
cuttings.
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Regeneration use: Climax species, usually used in assisted rehabilitation projects, i.e. ecosystem has remnant value and is not fully degraded. Can be used as pioneer species.
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CPR Coastal Plant Regeneration |
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