Blueberry Ash family : ELAEOCARPACEAE (DILLENIIDAE) in Australia

Flower Families

Don Herbison-Evans (donherbisonevans@yahoo.com) & Christine Ashe

Plant Classes

Elaeocarpus reticulatus Blueberry Ash Mortlake, NSW November 2006

Sloanea australis Maiden's Blush Morwell Park, Vic September 1990

Tetratheca ciliata Pink Bells Morwell Park, Vic September 1990

Tetratheca pilosa Hairy Pink Bells Wonboyn, NSW Photo: courtesy of Paul Whitington

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

Exometoeca nycteris

Netrocoryne repanda

Deudorix diovis

Dysgonia constricta

Lophocnema eusphyra

Echiomima mythica

Arignota stercorata