Pomaderris aspera
English: Hazel pomaderris.
Region: eastern and southern Australia, Tasmania.
Botany
Shrub, up to 4 metres tall.
Stem: not buttressed; straight or crooked; bark is dark brown, fairly smooth, with fissures and longitudinal irregularities; small branches are quite thick and covered in fawn hairs and rusty brown lenticels on larger branchlets.
Leaves: rough; 5 to 20 cm long, 2 to 8 cm wide; ovate lanceolate, with coarse serrations; venation conspicuous below the leaf, but sunken on the upper leaf surface.
Flowers: yellow; without petals; flowering from October to November on panicles.
Fruit: dark brown hairless capsule, 3 mm in diameter; 3 carpels, each with 1 bone coloured seed.