Scientific Name: Monotoca glauca
Common Name: goldey wood
Family Classification (Clade): Eudicots
Family: Ericaceae
Form Description: A densely branched shrub or small tree with slender branches.
Height (m): 0.5 – 8
Flowers: Small, cream, solitary in axillary spikes. Trees often unisexual. Flowers sweetly fragrant.
Fruit: Drupe – greenish when mature, only about 2mm in diameter.
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Habitat Notes
Common understorey shrub at edges of wet forest and in previously logged areas.
Site Tolerance
Moist, Shady
Soil Tolerance
Fertile, Loam, Nutrient-poor, Well-drained
Frost Tolerance
Hardy
General Notes
An ideal hedging plant. Susceptible to Phytophthora cinnamomi.
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Propagation Method
Seed Information
Seed Treatment Method
Fermentation Collect fleshy fruits in a plastic bag, mash up and allowed to ferment to replicate digestion by a bird.
Seed Treatment Notes
Difficult to grow from seed. Can take up to 18 months to germinate.
Germination Time
Up to 18 months
Cutting & Division Information
Can be grown from cuttings with heat and mist. Care needed when pricking out as with all Ericaceae because of fine roots. Can grow very strongly in the pot and need potting on or planting out quite quickly.