Duboisia hopwoodii F.Muell.

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Species

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Characteristics

Rounded shrub to 4 m high and 3 m wide. Leaves sessile or rarely with petiole to 3 mm long; lamina narrowly elliptic or ovate-elliptic to linear, 2–12 cm long, 1–13 mm wide, concolorous. Inflorescence narrow; bracts 0.5–4 mm long; pedicels 1.5–5 mm long. Calyx 1.5–4.5 mm long, the lobes usually about one-third as long as tube. Corolla 7–15 mm long; tube 4.5–8 mm diam. at apex; lobes orbicular to broadly ovate, 2.5–5.5 mm long, truncate at base. Stamens 4, the shorter pair 3.3–6.0 mm long and the longer pair 4.3–8.0 mm long; staminode usually absent. Style 3.5–6.5 mm long, equal to or shorter than upper stamens. Berry usually globose or subglobose, rarely ellipsoid, 2–5 mm diam., purple-black; fruiting pedicels 3–5 mm long. Seeds 1–16 per fruit, 2–2.5 mm long.
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A medium sized shrub which keeps growing from year to year. It grows 2.4 m high and spreads 2.4 m wide. The bark is corky and brownish-yellow to purple. The leaves are sword shaped and dark green. The flowers are bell shaped. They are white with purple stripes. The fruit is a round, black berry.
Life form perennial
Growth form shrub
Growth support free-standing
Foliage retention evergreen
Sexuality hermaphrodite
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Mature width (meter) 2.4
Mature height (meter) 2.7 - 3.2
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Photosynthetic pathway c3

Environment

Usually grows in red or yellow sand or sandy loam, on sandy plains, low dunes or sandy rises, in tussock grassland, mallee, mixed shrubland and mulga woodland, often with Triodia.
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It is a tropical plant. It grows in arid areas and in free draining gravelly soils. It needs a sunny position. It suits hardiness zones 10-12.
Arid regions on yellow or red sand, sandy loam, on plains, low dunes & rises. Arid regions on red sand in mallee and woodland communities.
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Hardiness (USDA) 9-12

Usage

The leaves are chewed as a narcotic. CAUTION: The leaves are probably poisonous. They contain nicotine.
Uses animal food food material medicinal non-vertebrate poison poison social use vertebrate poison
Edible fruits leaves
Therapeutic use Masticatory (unspecified)
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Cultivation

It can be grown from seeds.
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Images

Duboisia hopwoodii unspecified picture

Distribution

Duboisia hopwoodii world distribution map, present in Australia

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:815654-1
WFO ID wfo-0001021491
COL ID 37YYY
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Wikipedia (EN) Link
Wikipedia (FR)

Synonyms

Anthocercis hopwoodii Duboisia hopwoodii