| Common Name: | Austral or Native Mulberry, Djelwuck |
| Synonym: | |
| Family: | Monimiaceae |
| Size: | 3-7m x 4m |
| Description: | Slender large shrub to small tree with short hairs on new growth and flowers. Male and female flowers on separate plants (dioecious). |
| Leaves: | Glossy dark green elliptic to lance-shaped, leaves, paler green below, 5-10.5cm x 2.5-5.5cm. Teeth on margins have hard tips, veins white to yellow. |
| Flowering: | Bunches of insignificant male and female flowers, lacking petals. Small inedible round yellow to orange fruit. |
| Flower Colour: | Green |
| Flowering Time: | August to December |
| Growing Conditions: | Moist, rich soils in gullies of damp to wet forests and rainforests. Frost and snow tolerant. Full shade. |
| Garden Use: | Grow in a protected, moist position as an upper storey to ferns. Screen plant |
| Related Species: | |
| Plant Communities: | 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 13, 16, 36 |
| Conservation Status: | Locally common within its preferred growing conditions |
| Aboriginal Use: | Stems, wood - spear ends, fire sticks for fire-making |
| Commercially available: | Australian plant & indigenous nurseries |
| Bird Attracting: | No |
| Butterfly Attracting: | No |
| Frog Habitat: | No |
| Photographer: | 1, 3 Peter Hinchington ©; 2, 4, 5 Marilyn Gray © |