Family: Myrtaceae
Plant: A shrub up to 1.5m high with slender often arching branchlets.
Flowers: Axillary in dense terminal clusters of white to pink star-like flowers each with 5 spreading petals and numerous long white stamens. After the flowers drop the purplish-red calyces with long thread-like awns persist.
Flowering: Mainly July-December.
Fruit: Small dry enclosed seed.
Leaves: Small, alternate, crowded, linear 4-8mm long and 0.5-1mm wide. The leaves are aromatic, triangular in cross-section and have finely fringed or toothed margins.
Habitat: Heathland and dry sclerophyll forest on sandy soils.
Features: Persistent red awned calyces. Small aromatic leaves.
Name:
Calytrix From Greek calyx = cup and trichos = hair (referring to the long awns on the calyx).
tetragona From Greek = 4-sided (referring to its fruit).
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Type |
Shrub |
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Flowers |
Form |
Regular, Cluster |
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Colour(s) |
White, Pink |
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Petal/Sepal No. |
5 |
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Flowering Month |
7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12 |
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Fruit |
Type |
Other |
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Colour |
- |
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Other Features |
- |
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Leaves |
Arrangement |
Alternate, Crowded |
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Type |
Simple |
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Shape |
Linear |
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Length |
Tiny |
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Margins |
Toothed/Serrated |
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Attachment |
Unstalked |
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Other Features |
Aromatic |
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Bark |
- |
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Habitat |
Dry sclerophyll forest, Heathland |
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