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Scientific Name : Hypericum androsaemum
Common Name : Tutsan
Height : 800 mm
Description : Tutsan forms a spreading, soft wooded shrub. Leaves are broadly Ovate, Sessile, to 150 mm long in opposite pairs along chestnut coloured stems. Flowers are in terminal cymes. The Sepals are ovate to 8 mm, becoming enlarged and Deflexed in fruit. Petals are bright yellow, Obovate to 8 mm, with numerous Stamens in five bundles, slightly longer than the Petals. The fruit is a fleshy berry-like capsule, globular, about 10 mm diameter, becoming blackish when ripe.
Habitat : A common weed in cool moist forests and along streams.
Distribution : Introduced from Europe, into N.S.W., Victoria and Tasmania. Common in Victoria in the Otways, Strzeleckis and the Dandenong Ranges. In the Park a common weed on the banks of Billys Creek.
Flowering Season : November December January
Family : Clusiaceae
This is an introduced species  
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Tutsan stems bearing flowers and fruit on banks of Billys Creek.