Longevity ? 20--100 years.
Flowers Green or cream, May--September.
Fruit/seed Succulent fruit (drupe), 3 mm diam., bright or dark red, mature September--December.
Dispersal, establishment and growth Diaspore: fruit, possibly bird-dispersed. Germination difficult and slow, 3--7 months (A. Bofeldt pers. comm.).
Fire response Killed by high intensity fire (at Narrabeen Lake 1/1994, P. Kubiak pers. comm.).
Interaction with other organisms Fruit eaten by birds (A. Bofeldt pers. comm.).
Habitat
Habitat Well-drained slopes and banks, sheltered areas, gullies, creek banks (A. Bofeldt pers. comm.).
Altitude 0--1200 m
Annual rainfall above 800 mm
Typical local abundance Rare--occasional.
Vegetation Heath and low scrub e.g. Allocasuarina distyla. Moist eucalypt forest e.g. with Syncarpia glomulifera, Allocasuarina torulosa, Angophora costata. Warm temperate rainforest and rainforest/open-forest ecotone (A. Bofeldt pers. comm.).
Substrate Poor sandy soils from sandstone, shale, low nutrients. Sometimes rocky areas, very well drained (A. Bofeldt pers. comm.).
Exposure Sheltered, mid--deep shade.
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