Rhodamnia rubescens

Rhodamnia rubescens, the scrub turpentine or brown malletwood, is an evergreen shrub or small tree in the myrtle family (Myrtaceae), endemic to eastern Australia from southeastern Queensland through New South Wales, where it occupies rainforest margins, gallery forest, and moist sclerophyll forest on a variety of soils. Mature plants typically reach 5-15 meters in height with a slender bole bearing smooth to slightly fibrous pinkish-brown to grey-brown bark that flakes in irregular patches. The leaves are opposite, simple, ovate to broadly elliptic, 4-10 cm long and 2-5 cm wide, with three prominent longitudinal veins running from the base — a feature characteristic of the genus — and a finely netted secondary venation; the upper surface is dark green and glabrous while the underside is paler and densely covered with fine appressed hairs, becoming silvery-grey. Crushed leaves emit a mild aromatic resinous scent. Inflorescences are short axillary cymes bearing two to seven small white flowers about 8-12 mm across, with five spreading petals and many showy stamens. Fruits are small globose berries 5-8 mm in diameter, ripening dark red to purplish-black, sweet and edible.