Hazel Pomaderris

	Photographer - John Broomfield Source - Museum Victoria
	Photographer - Ross Field

Pomaderris aspera

This is a hardy, slender, leafy shrub or small tree growing up to 12 m high.

Masses of yellow-green flowers appear from spring to summer.

The soft hairy leaves are dark green above and light green below.

The tree has interesting bark markings as it ages.

The leaves of this tree are often heavily grazed by insects causing extensive skeletonisation.

P. aspera leaves are the food for the rare Yellow Spot Jewel butterfly Hypochrysops byzos, and looper caterpillars (larvae of a geometrid moth) also graze the leaves.

Aboriginal people used the wood to make pegs for stretching skins.