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Pipturus argenteus
“Native Mulberry”

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TREE 4 TO 6 METRES TALLFast growing tree, interesting foliage, insignificant flowers in Summer/Autumn & translucent white, sweet & succulent edible fruit is bush tucker. Bird attractant & host to Jezebel & White Nymph butterfly.

Suitability
Category	Small Trees up to 10m
Family	Urticaceae
Aspect	Filtered Sun
Soil	Well-composted
Habitat	Dry Rainforest
Features
Bird Attracting, Bush Food Plants, Butterfly Plants, Creek Species, Edible Fruit Plants
Localities
Chapel Hill, Cubberla Creek, Enoggera Catchment, Ipswich area, Kenmore, Kenmore Hills, Logan City, Pine Rivers, Pinjarra Hills, Pullenvale, South Stradbroke Island, Sunshine Coast district, Upper Brookfield
Host Plant For These Butterflies
Indigo Flash (Rapala varuna simsoni), Jezebel Nymph (Mynes geoffroyi guerini), Speckled Line-blue (Catopyrops florinda halys), Varied Eggfly (Hypolimnas bolina), Yellow Admiral (Vanessa itea)
Fruit & Berry Food source for Birds Below
Australian King-parrot (Alisterus scapularis), Blue-faced Honeyeater (Entomyzon cyanotis), Brown Cuckoo-dove (Macropygia phasianella), Channel-billed Cuckoo (Scythrops novaehollandiae), Common Koel (Eudynamys scolopacea), Crimson Rosella (Platycercus elegans), Lewin's Honeyeater (Meliphaga lewinii), Little Lorikeet (Parvipsitta pusilla), Noisy Friarbird (Philemon corniculatus), Pacific Emerald Dove (Chalcophaps longirostris), Pied Currawong (Strepera graculina), Red-winged Parrot (Aprosmictus erythropterus), Rose-crowned Fruit-dove (Ptilinopus regina), Scaly-breasted Lorikeet (Trichoglossus chlorolepidotus), Silvereye (Zosterops lateralis), Superb Fruit-dove (Ptilinopus superbus), Swift Parrot (Lathamus discolor), Topknot Pigeon (Lopholaimus antarcticus), White-headed Pigeon (Columba leucomela), Wompoo Fruit-dove (Ptilinopus magnificus), Wonga Pigeon (Leucosarcia melanoleuca)