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A drought tolerant, hardy, prickly plant in dry rainforest merging with dry sclerophyl forest. Alyxia is an Australasian genus with 106 species from the Dogbane family (Apocynaceae). It consists of shrubs, climbers or scramblers (a plant with long stems, often with thorns to help it support itself as it climbs through shrubs). There are 14 species in Australia, 21 in New Caledonia and 7 in the other Pacific Islands, including Hawaii. Leaves opposite in whorls of 3-6, narrow-lanceolate to broad-ovate, smooth, leathery, glossy, margins slightly recurved. Leaves end a single spinose tooth. Flowers white, fragrant, in terminal heads, five petals and five sepals. Alyxia ruscifolia (Chain Fruit) is very common on dry hillsides where euc sclerophyll merges with dry rainforest habitat. In slightly more favourable conditions this could become much denser.
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