How to identify Pink-Flowered Doughwood
Identify Pink-Flowered Doughwood by combining habit, leaf characters, flower or fruit details, location, and its family pattern. Do not rely on one feature alone.
- Look for a tree habit.
- Check the distinctive field mark: Pink flower clusters directly on trunk and branches.
- Confirm leaf arrangement: Opposite.
- Confirm leaf type: Trifoliate.
- Confirm flower arrangement: Panicle.
- Confirm fruit type: Capsule.
- Confirm it sits within the Rutaceae family pattern, then compare close relatives before deciding it is Pink-Flowered Doughwood.
Plant Details
Leaf characters
- Leaf arrangement
- OppositerecordedTwo leaves arise from the stem at the same point, facing each other.“The leaves are arranged in opposite pairs and trifoliate on a petiole 20–110 mm (0.79–4.33 in) long.” — Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0
- Leaf type
- TrifoliaterecordedA compound leaf made of exactly three leaflets.“The leaves are arranged in opposite pairs and trifoliate on a petiole 20–110 mm (0.79–4.33 in) long.” — Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0
- Leaf shape
- OvaterecordedEgg-shaped, broader near the base.“The leaflets are elliptical, sometimes egg-shaped, 55–200 mm (2.2–7.9 in) long and 35–80 mm (1.4–3.1 in) wide, the end leaflet on a petiolule 5–17 mm (0.20–0.67 in) long.” — Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0
Typical of the family
Characters marked “recorded” are for Pink-Flowered Doughwood itself; the rest are typical of the Rutaceae family.
Flower & fruit characters
- Flower arrangement
- PaniclerecordedA branching cluster of clusters.“The flowers are bisexual and arranged in panicles 25–60 mm (0.98–2.36 in) long.” — Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0
- Fruit type
- CapsulerecordedA dry fruit from a fused ovary that splits open at maturity to release seeds.
Typical of the family
- Flower symmetry
- Actinomorphic (radially symmetrical)
- Inflorescence
- Cyme
- Fruit
- Berry
Characters marked “recorded” are for Pink-Flowered Doughwood itself; the rest are typical of the Rutaceae family — flowering plants only.
About Pink-Flowered Doughwood
A member of the Rutaceae family, Pink-flowered doughwood (Melicope elleryana) is a tree.
Uses
In practice it is planted as an ornamental.
Rutaceae
Citrus/Rue family
Pink-Flowered Doughwood belongs to the Rutaceae family.
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