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Paratrophis microphylla (small-leaved milk tree)

Synonyms: Epicarpurus microphyllus; Paratrophis heterophylla (homotypic); Streblus heterophyllus; Taxotrophis microphylla

Wikipedia Abstract

Streblus heterophyllus, commonly known as the small-leaved milk tree, is a species of plant in the family Moraceae that it endemic to New Zealand. As a juvenile plant S. heterophyllus has distinctive fiddle shaped leaves and a divaricating growth pattern. It grows in areas of lowland forest where it will grow into a tree around 12 metres high. The small-leaved milk tree flowers from the middle of spring to summer, with red berries following from late spring to autumn.
View Wikipedia Record: Paratrophis microphylla

Predators

Argosarchus horridus (The Horrid Stick Insect)[1]
Icerya purchasi (cottony cushion scale)[1]
Planococcus mali[1]

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1New Zealand Institute for Plant & Food Research Plant-SyNZ™ database
Abstract provided by DBpedia licensed under a Creative Commons License
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0