Family: Rutaceae
Plant: Erect strongly aromatic shrub 1-2m high.
Flowers: Cup-shaped or star-like bright pink flowers with four petals and 8 stamens. Flowers in dense axillary bunches.
Flowering: September-November.
Fruit: A small red coccus enclosed by the petals after flowering.
Leaves: Pinnate with 3-15 narrow leaflets, 5-30mm long and 1-6mm wide. The leaflets appear minutely serrated owing to tiny oil dots on their margins. They are strongly aromatic when crushed.
Habitat: Found in damp, shady areas in dry sclerophyll forest and heathland.
Features: Pinnate leaves. Aromatic plant.
Name:
Boronia After Francis Borone the Italian assistant to English botanical author Dr. Sidthorp.
thujona From Thujone (referring to its aroma being similar to that of an oil extracted from the Thuja plant).
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Type |
Shrub |
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Flowers |
Form |
Regular, Tubular/Bell- |
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shaped, Cluster |
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Colour(s) |
Pink |
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Petal/Sepal No. |
4 |
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Flowering Month |
9, 10, 11 |
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Fruit |
Type |
Other |
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Colour |
Red |
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Other Features |
- |
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Leaves |
Arrangement |
Opposite |
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Type |
Compound |
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Shape |
Linear |
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Length |
Medium |
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Margins |
Entire |
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Attachment |
Stalked |
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Other Features |
Oil dots/Glands, |
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Aromatic |
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Bark |
- |
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Habitat |
Dry sclerophyll forest, Heathland |
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