Olive family : OLEACEAE (ASTERIDAE) in Australia

Flower Families

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

Plant Classes

Chionanthus ramiflorus Northern Australian Olive Magnetic Island Photo: courtesy of Donald Simpson	Chionanthus retusus Chinese Fringe Tree Concord, December 2008	Fraxinus griffithii Evergreen Ash Concord, March 2007	Fraxinus pensylvanica Green Ash Wyee, November 2008
Jasminum didymum Australian Jasmine Magnetic Island Photo: courtesy of Donald Simpson	Jasminum mesneyi Yellow Jasmine Sydney, August 2006	Jasminum polyanthum Pink Jasmine Sydney, August 2006	Jasminum sambac Arabian Jasmine courtesy of Concord Florist
Ligustrum lucidum Large Leaf Privet Sydney, October 2006	Ligustrum vulgare European Privet Concord, May 2007	Olea europaea Olive Sydney, October 2006	Osmanthus fragrans Heaven Scent Wyee, August 2008

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

Netrocoryne repanda

Psilogramma casuarinae

Psilogramma exigua

Psilogramma menephron

Palpita annulata

Nausinoe geometralis

Craniophora fasciata

Ischyja manlia

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Australian butterflies

Australian Lepidoptera

Australian moths

(updated 3 February 2013, 4 January 2024)