About Dodonaea triquetra J.C.Wendl.
Dodonaea triquetra J.C.Wendl., commonly known as large-leaf hop-bush, is most often a dioecious shrub, rarely polygamodioecious, that usually grows no taller than 3 metres (9.8 feet). It bears simple leaves that are typically elliptic, and occasionally lance-shaped or egg-shaped. The leaves measure 45–120 mm (1.8–4.7 in) long and 10–47 mm (0.39–1.85 in) wide, are glabrous, and grow from a petiole 2–7 mm (0.079–0.276 in) long. Flowers are arranged in panicles at the ends of branches. Each flower has four, rarely five, broadly triangular sepals that drop off as the flower matures, usually eight, rarely ten stamens, and a glabrous ovary. Flowering occurs mostly in summer, and the mature seeds are lens-shaped, 2.5–2.7 mm (0.098–0.106 in) long. This species grows in wet or dry forest, usually in sand or on sandstone, along the east coast of Australia. Its range extends from north of Cooktown in north Queensland, through near-coastal areas and the slopes and tablelands of New South Wales, to near Bairnsdale in eastern Victoria.
