Male flowers. Australian Plant Image Index, Photographer Murray Fagg, 45km south of Nyngan, NSW

Male flowers. Australian Plant Image Index, Photographer Murray Fagg, near Condobolin, NSW

Young fruit. Australian Plant Image Index, Photographer Murray Fagg, Nombinnie Nature Reserve, NSW

Tree. Australian Plant Image Index, Photographer Murray Fagg, south of Cardina, NSW

Common Name

Warrior Bush, Currant-bush

Family

Capparaceae

Notes

Shrub or tree to 5m or more tall. Older branches leafless. Younger branches with 2 soft deciduous spines at the bases of the leaves. Leaves alternating up the stems, 0.5-1.5cm long, linear to narrow and flat, hairy. Male and female flowers on separate plants. Flowers fragrant, with 2 or 4 greenish white, cream, or yellow, petals, borne singly or in clusters at the bases of the leaves if present, along the stems, or on short side branchlets. Fruit purple or black when ripe.

Description and photo in G.M. Cunningham, WE Mulham, PL Milthorpe and J H Leigh (1981 and later printings) Plants of Western New South Wales page 337

PlantNET description:   http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Apophyllum~anomalum