Ehretia acuminata var. acuminata
Koda at Kangaroo Valley, NSW
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| Ehretia acuminata var. acuminata | MichaelMulvaney | 11 Mar 2026 | |
| Ehretia acuminata var. acuminata | JasonPStewart | 8 Sep 2025 | |
| Wilkiea hugeliana | lbradley | 8 Sep 2025 | |
| Ficus coronata | lbradley | 24 Aug 2025 | |
| Elaeocarpus reticulatus | lbradley | 24 Aug 2025 | |
| Hedycarya angustifolia | lbradley | 24 Aug 2025 |
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22 comments
24 Aug 2025
The small raised glands (?) over the upper side of the leaf do not look right for this sp.
24 Aug 2025
It’s the best I could do. I’ll keep an eye on it. It is in an area with lots of regen - next to where we found the bleeding heart.
24 Aug 2025
Dendrocnide sp.
The problem is that it looks closest to Dendrocnide photiniphylla but it doesn’t occur in KV.
The problem is that it looks closest to Dendrocnide photiniphylla but it doesn’t occur in KV.
24 Aug 2025
There are heaps of sandpaper figs coming up in the area but it didn’t have the texture. I guess it’s back to wait and see.
8 Sep 2025
That’s disappointing. There are 4 sightings of Wilkiea in ALA very near us and our weeds contractor who is very good on plant ID thinks there are Wilkieas in that area.
8 Sep 2025
I thought of _Ehretia acuminata_ 'koda tree' for this seedling ?
What do you good people make out of this identification candidate?
This seedling's leaves' venation patterns and margins serration appear to match the leaves scans and seedlings i have checked in the rain forest botanical information systems.
What do you good people make out of this identification candidate?
This seedling's leaves' venation patterns and margins serration appear to match the leaves scans and seedlings i have checked in the rain forest botanical information systems.
8 Sep 2025
Hi Jason - good to hear from you! I think the veins in the images on ALA for Ehretia acuminata don’t match my specimen. My veins mirror each other on both sides of the leaf - I’m sure there is terminology for that - whereas veins on Ehretia acuminata don’t seem to do that.
8 Sep 2025
Please may i explain some more – as that was a bit simplistic for the venation patterns, those secondary veins per se vary a lot in their most simplistic aspects such as mirroring or not mirroring .
Please look at _Ehretia acuminata_ seedlings' overall forms and at their tertiary venation patterns together with the secondary veins patterns as a whole pattern of venation,
in the way you look to complex (not simplistic) patterns such as if you need to visually match a picture of a person's fingerprint with a real person's fingerprint
(without asking the computer to match it).
Including that _Ehretia acuminata_ seedlings we know do have more pronounced, deeper serrations, have hairs on the leaves upper surfaces, and have partly varied venation patterns,
as this seedling shown here does,
than the leaves of _Ehretia acuminata_ mature trees do.
Please look at _Ehretia acuminata_ seedlings' overall forms and at their tertiary venation patterns together with the secondary veins patterns as a whole pattern of venation,
in the way you look to complex (not simplistic) patterns such as if you need to visually match a picture of a person's fingerprint with a real person's fingerprint
(without asking the computer to match it).
Including that _Ehretia acuminata_ seedlings we know do have more pronounced, deeper serrations, have hairs on the leaves upper surfaces, and have partly varied venation patterns,
as this seedling shown here does,
than the leaves of _Ehretia acuminata_ mature trees do.
8 Sep 2025
One of the specimens in ALA was just across the river from our property - almost a stone’s through away
8 Sep 2025
Specimens for Ehretia acuminata. Although it’s probably more like a couple of kilometres away. 😊
9 Sep 2025
Lisa @lbradley and Kevin @plants .
Good morning !
Lisa.
Do you have and use this information system already ? :
• Harden Gwen, Hugh Nicholson, Bill McDonald, Nan Nicholson, Terry Tame and John Williams (2024) [2014]
Rainforest Plants of Au : Rockhampton to Victoria - edition 2
information system and botanical matrix identification key.
Computer (desktops and laptops) software:
→ https://rainforests.net.au/product/rainforest-plants-of-australia-desktop-app/
→ https://rainforestpublishing.com.au/publications/
(Also in Mobile devices (phones and tablets) app.: )
(→ https://rainforests.net.au/product/rainforest-plants-of-australia-mobile-app/ )
(→ https://rainforestpublishing.com.au/shop/rainforest-plants-of-australia-2-0-mobile-app/ )
If not, please do get the computer software (desktop and laptop) edition of this and use it.
Invaluable yet only costs $30 .
Including high quality photographs of most parts of each and every species ,
including of _Ehretia acuminata_ .
Good morning !
Lisa.
Do you have and use this information system already ? :
• Harden Gwen, Hugh Nicholson, Bill McDonald, Nan Nicholson, Terry Tame and John Williams (2024) [2014]
Rainforest Plants of Au : Rockhampton to Victoria - edition 2
information system and botanical matrix identification key.
Computer (desktops and laptops) software:
→ https://rainforests.net.au/product/rainforest-plants-of-australia-desktop-app/
→ https://rainforestpublishing.com.au/publications/
(Also in Mobile devices (phones and tablets) app.: )
(→ https://rainforests.net.au/product/rainforest-plants-of-australia-mobile-app/ )
(→ https://rainforestpublishing.com.au/shop/rainforest-plants-of-australia-2-0-mobile-app/ )
If not, please do get the computer software (desktop and laptop) edition of this and use it.
Invaluable yet only costs $30 .
Including high quality photographs of most parts of each and every species ,
including of _Ehretia acuminata_ .
19 Sep 2025
Please upload the other sighting we referred to in private messaging,
I will confirm that sighting's identification and then confirm this sighting's identification.
Much respect for Kevin @plants and no division thereof - his correct awesome long experience–based suggestion for you to check local gardens' exotic species.
Equally your own correct local site specific knowledge based suggestion that this sapling grows in a bush context and way. Hence suggesting a local indigenous species.
We need respect for and love for diverse plurality of experiences–based points of view – i do not like the mostly pale–male authoritarian figure heads who have caused so much damage (topical across our shared planet Earth at this time)
and evidences (facts) matter a lot – We all know the saying:
We are all entitled to our own opinions, yet none of us have any entitlement to make up false facts –really just more mere opinions (again so topical re: one of the worst in history psychological projectioners, hypocrits, accusing everybody else of fake news but in reality, in actual facts, in many evidences, amongst the worst perpetrators of what he has so often accussed other people of doing. ).
I will confirm that sighting's identification and then confirm this sighting's identification.
Much respect for Kevin @plants and no division thereof - his correct awesome long experience–based suggestion for you to check local gardens' exotic species.
Equally your own correct local site specific knowledge based suggestion that this sapling grows in a bush context and way. Hence suggesting a local indigenous species.
We need respect for and love for diverse plurality of experiences–based points of view – i do not like the mostly pale–male authoritarian figure heads who have caused so much damage (topical across our shared planet Earth at this time)
and evidences (facts) matter a lot – We all know the saying:
We are all entitled to our own opinions, yet none of us have any entitlement to make up false facts –really just more mere opinions (again so topical re: one of the worst in history psychological projectioners, hypocrits, accusing everybody else of fake news but in reality, in actual facts, in many evidences, amongst the worst perpetrators of what he has so often accussed other people of doing. ).
Location information
- Coordinates 150.531067-34.736203
- Altitude 81.3m
- Places Kangaroo Valley, NSW
Sighting information
- At least 1 Abundance
- 24 Aug 2025 07:10 AM Recorded on
- lbradley Recorded by
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- KV native plants Kangaroo Valley Block lbradley NatureMapr Other Trees Plants Ehretia acuminata var. acuminata
Species information
- Ehretia acuminata var. acuminata Scientific name
- Koda Common name
- Not Sensitive
- Local native
- Non-invasive or negligible
- Up to 103m Recorded at altitude
Record quality
Quality score
4 / 7
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- More than one media file
- Verified by an expert moderator
- GPS evidence of location
- Nearby sighting(s) of same species
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