Hedycarya angustifolia
| Hedycarya angustifolia | |
|---|---|
| Female flowers | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Magnoliids |
| Order: | Laurales |
| Family: | Monimiaceae |
| Genus: | Hedycarya |
| Species: | H. angustifolia |
| Binomial name | |
| Hedycarya angustifolia | |
Hedycarya angustifolia, commonly known as native mulberry, Australian mulberry, or djelwuck is a species of flowering plant in the family Monimiaceae, and is endemic to eastern Australia. It is a shrub or small tree with elliptic or egg-shaped to lance-shaped leaves and male and female flowers on separate plants. Male flowers are borne in branched clusters of 5 to 16 and have 8 tepals and about 50 stamens and female flowers have about 12 tepals and 40 to 50 carpels. The fruit is a more or less spherical, tightly clustered yellow or orange drupes.