Ochrosia elliptica - Florida Natural Areas Inventory

Common Name: elliptic yellowwood

Family: Apocynaceae

Common Synonyms: none

USDA Hardiness Zone: 10b-11b

Growth Habit: Shrub or small tree

Origin: Australia and New Caledonia

FISC Category: -

FDACS Listed Noxious Weed: No

Introduction Date: Earliest Florida specimen was a cultivated specimen from 1959

IFAS Assessment:

North: CAUTION
Central: OK
South: OK

Close up of four red drupes and leaves — Bill Higham

Description

Tree to 6 m tall. Exudes copious white sap when injured. Petiole 1.5-2 cm; leaf blade obovate to broadly elliptic, 8-15 X 3-5 cm, apex obtuse or short acuminate. Inflorescence cymose. Flowers sessile. Corolla white, cylindric, tube ca. 1 cm; lobes linear, ca. 6 mm. Drupes ellipsoid, 2-4 X ca. 1 cm, red at maturity.

Habitat

Comments

Flowers June and latex containing.

Control Methods

Manual: NA
Chemical: NA
Biological: NA

Control Notes

References

IFAS, UF. 2017. Assessment of Non-Native Plants in Florida's Natural Areas. Ochrosia elliptica. https://assessment.ifas.ufl.edu/assessments/ochrosia-elliptica/ Accessed April 3, 2022.

Wunderlin, R. P., and B. F. Hansen. 2008. Atlas of Florida Vascular Plants (http://florida.plantatlas.usf.edu/).[S. M. Landry and K. N. Campbell (application development), Florida Center for Community Design and Research.] Institute for Systematic Botany, University of South Florida, Tampa.

eFloras (2008). Published on the Internet http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=2&taxon_id=200018426 [accessed 3 August 2022] Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis, MO & Harvard University Herbaria, Cambridge, MA.