| Blue Lilly Pilly
Syzygium oleosum |
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| Family: MYRTACEAE | Distribution: Queensland to Mt Kembla |
| Synonyms: Syzygium coolminianum | |
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Description: Shrub or small tree, 2-5 m high. Leaves glossy – green, lower surface paler, opposite, narrow-ovate to elliptic, 3-12 cm long, 1-4 cm wide. Flowers white occurring November-August. Fruit blue to magenta, globose to ovoid, 10-25 mm diam. with a single seed (solitary embryo). Usually found growing in littoral rainforest, hind dunes and in headland communities.
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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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