Flowers and leaves. Photo: Don Wood, Scotia Sanctuary, NSW

Green fruit, flowers, and leaves. Photo: Don Wood, Scotia Sanctuary, NSW

Tree. Photo: Don Wood, Scotia Sanctuary, NSW

Common Name

Wilga

Family

Rutaceae

Notes

Shrub or tree to 10m tall.  Leaves aromatic when crushed.  Leaves alternating up the stems, 3.5-18cm long, 3-14mm wide, linear to flat, hairless, edges curved upwards, and blunt or pointed tips.  Flowers smell foetid.  Flowers small (less than 3mm across), white, with 5 petals.  Flowers in open groups at the ends of the branchlets. Fruit green.  Rare SA.  Endangered Vic.  Threatened list Vic.

Description and photos in G.M. Cunningham, WE Mulham, PL Milthorpe and J H Leigh (1981 and later printings) Plants of Western New South Wales pages 447-448

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