Family Index

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Scientific Name

Hydrocotyle comocarpa

Family Name

APIACEAE (UMBELLIFERAE)

Common Name

Fringefruit Pennywort

Status

Rare

Height

Flowers

10-20 flowers in a flat-topped head.

Fruit

Form

Annual herb with deeply divided, mostly hairless leaves, on hairy stalks. It has yellow or white outgrowths at the base of the leaf stalks. Usually branches from the base and spreads along the ground.

Municipalities

Flinders Island

Communities

Habitat Notes

Recorded only once on Flinders Island, on shallow soil on a ridge crest with other forbs, shrubs and Eucalyptus nitida.

Site Tolerance

Frost Tolerance

Soil Tolerance

General Notes

Propagate from seed (no treatment required), cuttings, or by division of rhizomes, which is easy. Rooted segments may be heeled in to their final positions so long as they are kept well-watered until established. Suitable below powerlines.

Propagation Details

Propagation Calendar

Flowering Months

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Dec

Seed Collecting Months

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Oct

Nov

Dec

Sowing Months

Jan

Feb

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Jun

Jul

Aug

Sep

Oct

Nov

Dec

Cutting Months

Jan

Feb

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Apr

May

Jun

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Aug

Sep

Oct

Nov

Dec

Seed Information

Seed Collection

Fruit is oval shaped, slightly flattened and with a wrinkly or ridged surface. It is 2mm long, and has a row of thin dry hairs, up to 1mm long, at the tip.

Seed Treatment Method

Seed Storage Life

Viable Seeds Per Gram

Seed Treatment Notes

Germination Time

Suitable for Direct Seeding

Cuttings

Expected Time to Take Root

Expected Time to Plant Out

Propagation by Division N.B. Transplant only from nearby to avoid disease.

Yes

Cutting Notes