Family: Myrtaceae
Plant: A spreading much-branched shrub up to 2m high.
Flowers: Creamy-white ageing to red tubular flowers in crowded terminal bundles usually of 7 flowers. An erect, straight or slightly curved style 1-1.5cm long protrudes from each flower.
Flowering: June-September.
Leaves: Small densely crowded, opposite or whorled, needle-like light green aromatic leaves, 1-1.5cm long.
Habitat: In heathland on sandy soils.
Features: Long protruding styles. Bundles of white to red tubular flowers.
Name:
Darwinia After Charles Darwin’s grandfather the English physician and amateur botanist Erasmus Darwin
fascicularis From Latin = arranged in bundles (referring to its leaves)
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Shrub |
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Flowers |
Form |
Tubular/Bell-shaped, Cluster |
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Colour(s) |
White, Red |
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Petal/Sepal No. |
5 |
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Flowering Month |
6, 7, 8, 9 |
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Fruit |
Type |
Other |
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Colour |
- |
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Other Features |
- |
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Leaves |
Arrangement |
Opposite, Whorled, |
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Clustered |
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Type |
Simple |
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Shape |
Linear, Needle-like |
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Length |
Tiny, Short |
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Margins |
Entire |
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Attachment |
Unstalked |
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Other Features |
Aromatic |
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Bark |
- |
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Habitat |
Heathland |
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