Noosa's Native Plants

• Pronunciation: a-LEC-tre-on
• Common Name: Beach Bird's Eye Beach Alectryon
• Type: Shrub, small Tree
• Family: SAPINDACEAE Rachis tip extended%29
• Size: 1-6 metres, depending on exposure to salt winds.
• Flowers: Yellow Monoecious November to December
• Fruit: green red black
• Vegetation Type: Littoral Rainforest and coastal scrubs
• Species List: Hedges, Bush food, Emu Mt., Biosphere Day Noosa Woods, Peregian Boardwalk, Coolum High, Sunshine Beach Primary, NNP service road, Janet, Viridian Track, Boreen Point, Regional Ecosystem 12.2.14.

Cultural Notes

Bush food: Astringent Fruit eaten.

Identification Notes

Young Branchlets and Terminal buds downy. Leaves mostly held in twos with strongly raised Veins below.

Landscaping Notes

Noosa Council Preferred Species . Bushy Shrub for well drained soil in full sun. Masses of shiny black Fruit enclosed in a red Aril which attracts Fruit-eating birds. Tolerates salt-laden winds. Useful windbreak, screen Plant. Seed germinates readily.

Successfully propagated by Tin Can Bay City Farm
Successfully propogated by Noosa & District Landcare
Successfully propagated by Florabunda Bushcare nursery, Woombye
Successfully propagated by Mooloolah Native Nursery

 

Associated Fauna

Host Plant: Pencilled blue, Hairy lineblue, Six lineblue, Felders lineblue, Glistening blue butterflies. Seed dispersed by birds attracted to sweet red Aril.