Streblus heterophyllus

Streblus heterophyllus
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
(unranked):	Angiosperms
(unranked):	Eudicots
(unranked):	Rosids
Order:	Rosales
Family:	Moraceae
Tribe:	Moreae
Genus:	Streblus
Species:	S. heterophyllus
Binomial name
Streblus heterophyllus
Synonyms
Paratrophis microphylla

Streblus heterophyllus, commonly known as the small-leaved milk tree, is a species of plant in the family Moraceae that it endemic to New Zealand.

As a juvenile plant S. heterophyllus has distinctive fiddle shaped leaves and a divaricating growth pattern.^[1] It grows in areas of lowland forest where it will grow into a tree around 12 metres high.

The small-leaved milk tree flowers from the middle of spring to summer, with red berries following from late spring to autumn.^[2]

References

1. G. Marie Bulmer (1958). "A key to the divaricating shrubs of New Zealand". Department of Botany, Victoria University of Wellington.
2. "Turepo". Supporters of Tiritiri Matangi Inc. Retrieved 16 September 2012.

Small-leaved milk tree seedling with its juvenile foliage