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Rhodamnia rubescens
“Scrub Turpentine”

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TREE FROM 10 TO 25 METRES TALLHardy, fast growing, dense rounded crown, leaves hairy on undersides. Small white flowers in Spring followed by profuse red berries which attract birds. Good screen tree.

Suitability
Category	Tall Trees: 10m & Over
Family	Myrtaceae
Aspect	Full Sun / Filtered Sun
Soil	Adaptable
Habitat	Dry Rainforest
Features
Bird Attracting, Creek Species, Near Critically Endangered, Screen Plants, Windbreaks
Localities
Alderley, Auchenflower, Bardon, Cubberla Creek, Deagon, Doboy, Dorrington, Enoggera, Enoggera Catchment, Everton Park, Ferny Grove, Gaythorne, Grovely, Hill End, Indooroopilly, Ipswich area, Ironside, Ithaca, Keperra, Lindum, Logan City, Lytton, Meeandah, Milton, Mitchelton, Mt Coot-tha, Myrtletown, Normanby, Nudgee Beach, Oakleigh, Oxford Park, Pine Rivers, Pinkenba, Rainworth, Rosalie, Sunshine Coast district, The Gap, Toowong, Torwood, Woolloongabba
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)