Blueberry Ash family
ELAEOCARPACEAE in Australia
including Aristoteliaceae, Tetrathecaceae, and Tremandraceae.
DILLENIIDAE

Flower
Families
Flowers in Australia
  
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Plants in Australia Plant
Classes

Elaeocarpus reticulatus
Blueberry Ash
Mortlake, November 2006

Sloanea australis
Maiden's Blush
Morwell Park, September 1990

Tetratheca ciliata
Pink Bells
Morwell Park, September 1990

Tetratheca pilosa
Hairy Pink Bells
Morwell Park, September 1990

Some species in ELAEOCARPACEAE have been used as the foodplant by caterpillars of a number of species of Australian Butterflies and Moths, for example:


Deudorix diovis

Dysgonia constricta

Echiomima mythica

Arignota stercorata

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(updated 4 January 2013)